YOSHITAKI UTAGAWA 歌川 芳滝 (active c. 1854–1887)

Signature: Yoshitaki ga (left and center sheet), Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki ga (right sheet) Date: around 1860 Osaka Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors, album backing, sheets glued together, folds along overlaps Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Chuban triptych (39 x 25,7 cm)

Pentaptychon depicting actors as five figures from the drama about the Soga brothers: (from the right) Kudô Saemon Suketsune, Soga no Jûrô, Soga no Gorô, Kobayashi no Asahina, Ôiso no Tora Signature: Yoshitaki hitsu Publisher: Honyasu, Osaka Date: 1865 Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors, use of metallic pigment Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: 25 x 89 cm

Man and woman at night in front of an inn The actors: left: Nakamura Gizaemon right: Arashi Rikan III Signature: Satonoya Yoshitaki Publisher: not specified Date: c. 1855-60 Osaka Condition: Perfect impression, colours and condition, partly black lacquer, old doubling Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: Chuban, diyptych 24,3 x 36,7 cm

Signature: Yoshitaki Date: 1857 Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors, slight toning, few tiny holes on margins, mounting residues Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Chuban (25,4 x 18,6 cm)

Onoe Taganojo II as Koharu, Jitsukawa Yaozo I as Konaya Magoemon and Nakamura Sojuro I as Kamiya Jihei in the play “Shinju Ten no Amijima” at the Hankei-za in May 1876 Signature: Sasaki Yoshitaki ga Date: 1876 Condition: excellent impression, vibrant colors Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: 25 x 52,5 cm

On the left: Arashi Tokusaburo III or IV; on the right: Ichikawa Takijuro II Date: ca. 1860 Condition: very good impression and colors, crease in the middle Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: 25 x 36,3 cm

Signature: Satonoya Yoshitaki Date: ca. 1860 Condition: very good impression and colors, backing Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size Chuban (24,6 x 18 cm)

Jitsukawa Enjaku I as Ishikawa Goemon and Nakamura Fukusuke III as Iwaki Tomanojo in the play: "Kamagafuchi Futatsu domoe", performed at Chikugo-za in September 1873. Signatur : Yoshitaki ga Verleger: Yaozen Date: 1873 Condition: fine impression and colors, some minor spots, sheets backed together. Original Japanese Woodblock Print, Size: chuban diptych (24,4 x 35,1 cm)