Need Help On This Woodblock Print.

[barnejp]

Hi Everyone,

 

Need help on this woodblock print.

 

Likely, by Gototei Kunisada. Publisher Yamamoto-ya Heikichi and Yamamoto Kyūbei.

 

Question is: What's up with the this triptych not matching the each adjoining print?

 

Thank you for any help.

 

Best regards,

Greg

 

 

[SteveM]

I can't see the bits you are worried about, but overall it seems OK to me, if a bit faded.

Here is the original in, what looks to me, like a color-enhanced photograph

 

https://blog.goo.ne.jp/55yasuji/e/305dea637a209ad9fcd12cfd1185629e

 

Bear in mind a bit of misalignment on the edges is probably to be expected from a handcrafted print of 150+ years.

Or, perhaps your triptych may have been assembled from different print runs, resulting in the prints being situated slightly differently on the paper.

[barnejp]

Thank you for your reply.

Each print looks good.

Signed: Gototei Kunisada

Publisher: Eikyudo (Yamamoto-ya Heikichi and Yamamoto Kyūbei)

Seal: Kiwame

 

But, I can't understand the big and I feel the major mismatch between each print.

Observing closely, just way off.

[barnejp]

Thank you Steve for the blog...however I can not connect.

 

Do you have another example or know the name of the print?

[Stephen]

[barnejp]

Stephen..Big time..thanks.

Do you know the name of the print?

And is the colour of my print mean anything...like its age or quality?

[TETSUGENDO]

Greg, Your print is a good quality image, but as others have noted it is rather faded.  This print appears to have been produced in a number of color versions during its life, the one Stephen posted shows your version in an unfaded state.  Read photo caption for print title.       -S-

 

 

[barnejp]

Could it be an aizuri print?

[Bugyotsuji]

Could there have been a fourth print, missing from second from right?

[TETSUGENDO]

Hi Piers,

 

The brain wants to make perfect visual order of things, so it suggests that the registration error can be rectified by a 'non-existant' fourth print.  LOL!   To my knowledge, this print was issued as a triptych only.

 

Cheers,

    -S-

[Bugyotsuji]

Gulp! Er... so that is the (Cheshire) cat’s tail in the right frame?