Kabuki Theatre Scene

Kabuki Theatre Scene is a color woodblock print on paper, realized by Utagawa Toyokuni II around 1810 ca.

This lovely ukiyo-e print depicts a kneeling actress, more precisely a geisha, wearing a precious and richly decorated kimono, during a theatrical performance in the Japanese theatre called Kabuki. It is particular to notice the theatrical setting reproducing a flowering trees, likely a flowering cherry trees. 

With printed inscription in Japanese ideograms and in cartouches at the margins. 

In Excellent conditon, except for usual aging signs (abrasion and holes of paper) and little discolorations, this superb original Japanese print could furnish your house with an elegant Oriental touch!

Provenance: Property from a Wuerttemberg private collection, assembled between the 1950s and 2000.

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Utagawa Toyokuni II  (1777–1835), also known as Toyoshige, was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Japan. Pupil, son-in-law and adopted son of  the master , Toyokuni I., he will heritage the Toyokuni name after his teacher's death in 1826 ( befare he was calledToyoshige (?? ) The signature of Toyokuni II is easiest to distinguish by the chalice-shaped  toyo  (?).