Original woodblock print triptych – Paper – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -“Keya Saga Nekoma kō” 花野嵯峨猫魔稿- Japan – 1880 (Meiji 13)

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Original woodblock print triptych – Paper – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -“Keya Saga Nekoma kō” 花野嵯峨猫魔稿- Japan – 1880 (Meiji 13)

The signature says “ Yoshu Chikanobu”揚州周延”.
This woodblock print has paper on the back.

This drawn the scene of Kabuki’s “Keya Saga Nekoma kō” 花野嵯峨猫魔稿.

Ichikawa Gonjuro 市川権十郎Playing the role of Ito Souta 伊東壮太
Sukekomaya Takasuke 助高屋高助 playing the role of Komori Handayuu小森半太夫
Sawamura Hyakunosuke 沢村百之助 playing the role of Otoyo no kata おとよのかた
Bandou Shiuka 坂東 志うか playing the role of “Adzuma Yoshirou”奥方九重
Nakamura Tokizou 中村時蔵 playing the role of “Takagi Sanpei” 高木三平

This artwork is a work by Kabuki drawn by chikanobu.
This artwork is influenced by his master, Toyohara Kunichi.
Therefore, it is not a artwork that depicts the whole body that Chikanobu was good at, but a artwork that depicts his face in a large size.

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”.