woodblock print meiji period – Utagawa Kuniteru (act. ca. 1830-1874) -旧尋曜斎輯筆 小西行長(Kyūjin Yōsai shūhitsu Konishi Yukinaga)-1873 (meiji 6 period)

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woodblock print meiji period – Utagawa Kuniteru (act. ca. 1830-1874) –旧尋曜斎輯筆 小西行長(Kyūjin Yōsai shūhitsu Konishi Yukinaga)-1873 (meiji 6 period)

Pubulisher:ryougoku taiheiban両国太平版

The signature says “Yousai Kuniteru-e曜斎国輝画”.

※This is Japanese paper so tears easily.
There are folds because it is old

The person depicted is Konishi Yukinaga(小西行長).
Yukinaga Konishi (1558-1600) was a samurai who was active during the Warring States period in Japan and was a rare Christian samurai at that time.

A disciple of the third generation Kunisada Toyokuni.he took on Utagawa as a surname, and also used the surname Ichi yusai(一雄斎),Ichiyousai(一曜斎),Yousai(曜斎),

From around Bunkyu(1861-1864), he started drawing activities under the name of the second generation Utagawa Kunitsuna(歌川国綱II) or Ichiransai Kunitsuna(一蘭斎国綱). It is believed that he changed his name to Kuniteru(国輝) around the first year of Keio (1865). In the days of Kunitsuna’s name, he was active in caricatures, street objects, and actor paintings. Since he became Kuniteru, he has drawn kaika-e such as “Tokyo Famous Places(東京名勝)” and “Tokyo Scenic Beauty(東京名所図会)”, including “Tokyo Twelve Views(東京十二景)”, a collaboration with the fourth generation Utagawa Kunimasa. There are quite a lot of railroad pictures such as “Tokyo Shiodome Railway Steam Locomotive Traffic(東京汐留鉄道蒸気車通行図)”, and the depiction of the steam locomotive is drawn by observing it much more precisely than other painters.