‘Endō Musha Moritōi’遠藤武者盛遠 – From the series “Gekkô zuihitsu” 月耕随筆 (Gekkô’s Miscellany)

Description

Original woodblock print – Ogata Gekko (1859-1920) – ‘Endō Musha Moritōi’遠藤武者盛遠 – From the series “Gekkô zuihitsu” 月耕随筆 (Gekkô’s Miscellany) – Japan – 1887 (Meiji 20)

Publisher by Takekawa Risaburo(武川利三郎)

This Ukiyo-e was designed by Ogata Gekko in meiji 20 period(1887).
This Ukiyo-e has 47 series.

This Ukiyo-e has holes and folds
Also, since it is old, there are stains and marks on the tape.

The signature is ‘Gekko’ 月耕

memo
He was born as Nakagami Shōnosuke (名鏡 正之助) in Kyōbashi Yazaemon-chō in Edo (modern Tokyo) in 1859.
Gekkō was self-taught in art, and began decorating porcelain and rickshaws, and designing flyers for the pleasure quarters.
From the 1890s Gekkō won a number of art prizes, both national and international. He was one of the earliest Japanese artists to win international attention. At the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 he won a prize for Edo Sannō matsuri (江戸山王祭, “Edo’s Sannō Festival”), and in 1904 he won the Gold Prize for the series Fuji hyakkei (富士百景, “One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji”) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. His work was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and at the Japan-British Exhibition in London in 1910.In 1898 at the Japan Art Association, Emperor Meiji bought his painting Soga yo-uchi (曽我夜討, “Night Attack of the Soga”). He won third prize at the sixth Ministry of Education Art Exhibition in 1912.