Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi - Portrait of a Warrior

Portrait of a Warrior (Samurai seated by a screen)

Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi original woodcut entitled, "Portrait of a Warrior" bears the twin censor date seals that were used from 1851 to 1853. In 1852 Kuniyoshi was working on a set of woodcuts entitled, Portraits of the Loyal Warriors. This warrior portrait may belong to this highly regarded series. It is a fine, original example of the art created by the 19th century Japanese artist, Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi.

Portrait of A Warrior

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Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798 - 1861)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Paulownia Court: Heroic Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Kiritsubo:Buyu nazoraye Genji), Takenouchi no Sukune carrying Emperor Ojin by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Hosoban)	c. 1844 - 1847	Published by Ibaya Senzaburo
02.-		Flowers: Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games (Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi) by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1840 - 1850	Published by Nunoyoshikichi (Nunokichi)
03.-		Earth: Tsuchi (Prince Genji Looking at The Garden Through His Window) from the Mitate go gyo by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1850	Published by Sanoya Kihei (Sano-ya Kihei)	Sold
04.-		Full Length Portrait of Guan Yu (Revered Chinese General) School of Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Pen and Ink Drawing (Hanshita)	c. 1850 - 1860
05.-		Portrait of Zhuge Liang (Famous Chinese Statesman & Military Tactician) School of Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Pen and Ink Drawing (Hanshita)	c. 1850 - 1860
06.-		Making Rare Scrolls in The Otsu-E Manner (Toki ni otsu-e kitai no maremono) by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Diptych)	1848	Published by Minatoya Kohei, Kinsendo
07.-		Portrait of A Warrior by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1851 - 1853		Sold
08.-		The Battle of Kurikara-dani - Series: Hokkuku O-Kassen (Two Warriors in Combat) by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1852	Published by Hayashiya Shogoro	Sold

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Title:	Portrait of a Warrior
Artist:	Kuniyoshi, Ichiyasai (Japan, 1798 - 1861)
Date:	1851 - 1853
Medium:	Original Japanese Woodcut
Note:	"Kuniyoshi was a master of many facets but in the fields of legend and history he reigns supreme. His is the work that forms the yardstick against which all others are judged." *
	Mid nineteenth century Ukiyo-e art is best represented in its three most illustrious artists. The woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige are permanently linked to the greatest images in Japanese landscape art. Yet the third master artist, Kuniyoshi, was equally adept at landscape, satire, figure studies and his famous legend and warrior prints.
	A student of Toyokuni, Kuniyoshi in his art has always seemed more akin to Western thought and style than any other Golden Age Japanese master. He was, after all, the first to attempt consolidating Western temperament and themes into his art, usually with remarkable success.
	Kuniyoshi's finest art was created from the 1830's and into the later years of the 1850's. After that date continuing ill health left its mark. Many of his most famous works draw from legend and history which gave him the imaginative vehicle to portray a vast spectrum of human emotions. His influence on the course of the Japanese woodcut was enormous and was directly passed on in the Meji era to his best student, Yoshitoshi.
Reference:	* Richard Illing, The Art of Japanese Prints, Gallery Books, New York, 1983, pp. 120-122.
Size:	14 X 9 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon mid-nineteenth century mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as published between 1851 and 1853. Containing several small holes within the image as well as a larger one on the right sleeve of the warrior. A previous collector has re-backed the woodcut onto another sheet of mulberry paper to conserve the work. Signed, 'Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga' to the lower left and bearing his Yoshi Kiri seal. Apart from the aforementioned holes Portrait of A Warrior is a vibrantly printed early impression and a brilliant example of the famous warrior art of Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi.
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