Original woodblock print – Paper – Taguchi Toshinobu 田口年信(1866-1903) Utagawa Kuniume 歌川国梅- “Iro Yoshiwara tosae aya” 色吉原土佐絵彩 – Japan – 1877 (Meiji 10)

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Original woodblock print – Paper – Taguchi Toshinobu 田口年信(1866-1903) Utagawa Kuniume 歌川国梅- “Iro Yoshiwara tosae aya” 色吉原土佐絵彩 – Japan – 1877 (Meiji 10)

Taguchi Toshinobu is named Syusai Kuniume hitsu(修斎国梅筆) in his signature.

This Ukiyoe has tears and traces of paper on the back.

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A disciple of Yoshitoshi Tsukioka(月岡芳年), Kansai Mori(森寛斎), Naoko Fukada(深田直城), and Kawabata Gyoku(川端玉章). His real name is Katsutoshi Shirai. He is commonly known as Shinjiro. At the beginning, He used signname the autographsof Shusai(鮮中舎)国梅), Shinchusha(鮮中舎), and Kuniume(国梅). After he became a disciple of Yoshitoshi, he used the Toshinobu picture.He will be adopted by the Taguchi(田口) family. His drawing period was from 1883 (Meiji 16) to his death, and in 1890 he went to Osaka to draw illustrations for newspapers and frontispieces for storytelling books. He is 38 years old.