Original woodblock print triptych – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -“Sonomoyou Tsuki no omokage”園模様月の面影(The pattern of the garden The appearance of the moon) – Japan –1887(Meiji20)- 1892 (Meiji 25)

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Original woodblock print triptych – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -“Sonomoyou Tsuki no omokage”園模様月の面影(The pattern of the garden The appearance of the moon) – Japan –1887(Meiji20)- 1892 (Meiji 25)

The signature says “Yoshu chikanobu”揚州周延”

Publiwsher by Hasegawa Sonokichi 長谷川園吉

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”.