Toyohara Kunichika: 100 Roles Of Baiko

100 Roles of Baiko by Kunichika Toyohara

Actors: “Baiko Hyakusunouchi”

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Publisher: Fukada Kumajiro

• Signed by artist: Toyohara Kunichika hitsu
• Date/period: 1893
• Material: ink on mulberry paper
• Size: 36 x 24.cm.
• Condition: Good color impression and condition, traces of aging
• Sold with authenticity certificate

Note: All woodblock prints are sold without frame

About the artist

The print is from Kunichika’s series The 100 Roles of Baiko. Baiko was the stage name for the popular kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro V. Kunichika and Kikugoro were friends and this ambitious series, printed on fine paper and using extensive blind embossing and mica powder (glitter) was commissioned by Fukuda Kumajiro in 1893. The bulk of each print portrays the actor Onoe Kikugoro V; the upper register shows a different actor in the supporting role.