UTAGAWA KUNISADA I / TOYOKUNI III (1786-1865) EDO PERIOD, C.1855-61 Four Japanese woodblock prints, the first entitled 'Wild Geese', published by Otaya Takichi, 36.5cm x 24.2cm; another of Villain Onitaro disguising himself as Shimobe Tomoshige, published by Kagiya Shobei, 35.5cm x 24cm; the third of a poet gazing at butterflies, published by Otaya Takichi, 36.2cm x 24cm; and the fourth of Shosan practising Asceticism, with spiderwebs behind him, published by Kagiya Shobei, 35.5cm x 24cm. (4) Provenance: from the private collection of a British artist, formed in the 1990s.