Original Japanese woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1947-1915)
Kiyochika Kobayashi was born at Honjo, Edo (now Tokyo) in 1947 as a son of the lower class of the Samurai family. He learned European method of painting by Charles Wirgman, and in 1876 he produced a new style series called kousen-ga (pictures in light), and the works caught the shifting brightness and the changing shadow and expressed landscape of Tokyo in the Meiji period poetically. He dies 69 years old at Tabata, Tokyo in 1915. He is a pioneer of the modern original print.
Series: the Flower Pattern Series first printed 1896 ( a set of 10 prints).
This series depicts beauties from various eras. This ine is Beauty of the Tenmei era. April 1781- Feb. 1789
image size: 14.25 x 28 inch
frame size: 19 x 34.5 inch
Condition: very good color and detail with margins trimmed
3 separate panels backed with antique paper with a few light creased.
reframed acid free core and mat with TRUVUE glass to protect the work.
1 of 3 prints
https://www.roningallery.com/beauty-from-anei-era
https://www.theartofjapan.com/art/courtesan-takao-of-the-hoei-shotoku-era-flower-by-kiyochika
https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2003.8.1255/