Original woodblock print triptych – Paper – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) – ‘Chiyo no hana shishi no iwai’ 千代の華 獅子之祝ひ (Flowers of Prosperity Celebratory Lion Dance) – Japan – 1879 (Meiji 12)

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Original woodblock print triptych – Paper – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) – ‘Chiyo no hana shishi no iwai’ 千代の華 獅子之祝ひ (Flowers of Prosperity Celebratory Lion Dance) – Japan – 1879 (Meiji 12)

The signature says  “Chikanobu hitsu,”周延筆”.
Paper is pasted on the back of the woodblock print. The prints are secured together

Children are often depicted in the works of chikaNobu.
This work also depicts a child dancing a lion dance.
Children are also depicted in the work that chikanobu exhibited at the 2nd Painting Co-Promotion Society(第二回絵画共進会) and won the Bronze Award.
I think it’s a style that Chikanobu was good at.

Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延), was a prolific woodblock artist of Japan’s Meiji period.
Chikanobu signed his artwork “Yōshū Chikanobu”(楊洲周延). This was his “art name”. The artist’s “real name” was Hashimoto Naoyoshi (橋本直義); and it was published in his obituary.
Many of his earliest works were signed “studio of Yōshū Chikanobu” (楊洲齋周延) Yōshū-sai Chikanobu; a small number of his early creations were simply signed “Yōshū” (楊洲). At least one triptych from 1879 exists signed “Yōshū Naoyoshi” (楊洲直義).
No works have surfaced that are signed either “Toyohara Chikanobu” or “Hashimoto Chikanobu”.