Original woodblock print triptych – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -‘Yōdō gunjin asobi’幼童 軍人遊び(Children’s Militaly Play) – Japan – 1895 (Meiji 28)

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Original woodblock print triptych – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -‘Yōdō gunjin asobi’幼童 軍人遊び(Children’s Militaly Play) – Japan – 1895 (Meiji 28)

The signature says  “Chikanobu hitsu,”楊州周延”.

Publisher:Shimizu Taigorou 清水泰五郎

In the works he draws, there are things such as changing clothes depending on the season and playing each season.
This work also has its characteristics.

Paper is pasted on the back of the woodblock print.

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”.