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Toyohara (Yôshû) Chikanobu (1838-1912)

N° Y 01129

Lady dressed in a warm winter kimono sitting at a Kotatsu and reading a newspaper, on her lap a cat. In the background a large round picture (a circular projecton of a magic lantern) showing a lady in a boat on the Sumidagawa river in a winter landscape.

Title: Sumidawa
Series: Gentô shashin kurabe (Magic Lantern Comparisons)

Signature: Yôshû Chikanobu hitsu
Seal: Toshidama-seal
Publisher: Yokoyama Ryôhachi

Date: Meiji 23 (1890)
Size: Oban, 35,5 x 23,8 cm

sold

Enlarged picture

Very nice impression, fresh colours, with relief printing. Not mounted and margins not trimmed. A tiny bit creased (smoothed), one wormhole near the signature and a second, very small one in the screen above. On the whole very good condition.

Compare: Bruce A. Coats, Chikanobu. Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints. Leiden 2006, pp 152.

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