Description
Original woodblock print – Utagawa Yoshitora (act. ca. 1836-1887) Utagawa Shigekiyo(?-?) – Japan –1872 (Meiji 5 period)
The people in Nanjing are drawn.At the end of the Edo period, many foreigners came to Japan.
Therefore, many were drawn in Ukiyo-e.There were many ukiyo-e artists who drawn foreigners, and Yoshitora was one of them.This ukiyo-e has a repair in the place where it is torn.
Utagawa Yoshitora is name ‘Yoshitorae’”芳虎画”in his signature.
Utagawa Shigekiyo is name ‘ the scenery shigekiyo e’ 景色重清画” in his signature
(memo)
He joined Utagawa school master Kuniyoshi’s studio and become one of the master’s students.
he took on Utagawa as a surname, and also used the surname Ichi Mousai(一猛斎),Mousai(孟斎),NishikichoEuro(錦朝楼),as an art name, and also used his birth surname as an art name in his career.
(memo)
A disciple of Utagawa Hiroshige. His real surname is Nozawa and his given name is Sadakichi. He used artname Ichieisai(一栄斎), Eisai(栄斎), and Rakusai(楽斎). His painting period was from the Ansei to the Meiji era, and although there were few works in the end of the Edo period, he mainly painted flower and bird paintings and warrior paintings. Although he stopped drawing for a period of time, from 1882, under his real name Sadakichi NOZAWA, he began to draw enlightenment paintings influenced by Hiroshige III, and continued to work until around 1887. there is His Yokohama-e painting “Yokohama Orai” depicts the manners and customs of foreigners on a long, narrow screen consisting of two half-cut horizontal panels.
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