Original woodblock print- paper – Watanabe Yosai Nobukazu (1872-1944) – ‘Ryōkoku hanabi azuma fūzoku meisho kisoi’両国花火 東風俗名所競(Contest of east culture Ryogoku river fireworks)- Japan – 1896 (Meiji 29)

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Original woodblock print- paper – Watanabe Yosai Nobukazu (1872-1944) – ‘Ryōkoku hanabi azuma fūzoku meisho kisoi’両国花火 東風俗名所競(Contest of east culture Ryogoku river fireworks)- Japan – 1896 (Meiji 29)

As it is an old ukiyo-e, it has stains

The sign of yousainobukazu hitsu(陽斎延一筆) is written on the ukiyo-e.

The fireworks display held at Ryogoku Bridge is familiar to the citizens of Edo and ukiyo-e artists.This work also depicts the fireworks display at Ryogoku Bridge.Ukiyo-e artists who draw fireworks festivals at Ryogoku Bridge also draw Kunisada, Utamaro, Hiroshige, Hokusai, and his master, Chikanobu.

This ukiyo-e has some areas where the colors are bleeding and some stains.

memo(Yōsai Nobukazu 楊斎延一)
Yōshūchikanobu(楊州周延) disciple.
he lived in Morikawa-cho, Hongo, Tokyo.
He was active as an ukiyo-e artist from around 1870 (Meiji 20) to 1907 (Meiji 40)
It is famous mainly for drawing Ukiyo-e of war products such as the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and ukiyo-e of samurai.
He often draws beauty woman paintings that his master often drew.
In the latter years, I also draw a Nikuhitsuga(肉筆画)

Many beautiful women who read books are depicted in Ukiyo-e.
Nobukazu also draws many beautiful reading books in woodblock prints, but there are not many hand-painted drawings.