“Tokugawajidai kifujin no zu Ikebana no zu” 徳川時代貴婦人の図 活花之図(Tokugawa era Illustration of the Ikebana painting)

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Original woodblock print triptych – Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) -“Tokugawajidai kifujin no zu Ikebana no zu” 徳川時代貴婦人の図 活花之図(Tokugawa era Illustration of the Ikebana painting) – Japan – 1900(Meiji 33),September

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”.

When it comes to works around this time, he has established his own style of painting, and you can see how it looks in women’s kimonos and how to draw the contours of their faces.

It is also the subject of paintings that Chikanobu  is good at.