Posted by David Lee on September 05, 1998 at 23:08:45:
In Reply to: Toyokuni III posted by Nils U. Bosshard on August 12, 1998 at 03:44:17:
: I have got a print signed "Utagawa Toyokuni hitsu" showing a woman and a man eating and drinking. The title of the series is, as far as I can make out, something like "Mita sanjuro kusen", which I translated as "A comparison of 36 selected poems".
: The date seal on the margin is partly trimmed, but the rest of it looks like one used between 1852 to 1858.
: The print has an inset showing a bowl and a flower, signed ???-SHIGE with a diamond shaped seal similar to one used by Hiroshige, but the signature does not look like Hiroshige's.
: Does anyone know such a series by Toyokuni III?
: The print shows 3 Kanji characters on a board, reading:
: - KYO, KEI, miyako = capital city
: - JIN, NIN, hito = human, person
: - KEI, GYO, katachi, kata, nara = form, pattern
: From this I can only make something like "Miyako ningyo" or "Puppet of the Capital", which makes no sense to me.
: Anyone can help?