Utagawa KUNISADA (Toyokuni III).1786-1864 Samurai with folding fan.Before 1844Polychrome woodcut. 368x224 mm., trimmed within margins. Lower left, signature "Gototei Kunisada ga", round censor's seal and publisher's mark. Some defects.

The date is evident from the " Gototei Kunisada ga" signature, used by Kunisada until 1844, and from the Nanush, the round seal of the censor, in this case the “kiwame”. From 1842 to 1853, individual censors called Nanushi. marked prints with their individual seals, bearing characters from their names. During the period from 1842 to 1846, these seals are found singly. From 1847 to 1853, the Nanushi marked prints in pairs.