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Subject:Please help identify old woodblock
Posted By: Michael Thu, May 09, 2024 IP: 2600:1700:1ff1:710:5
can anyone identify the artist of this woodblock? Thank you!!







Subject:Re: Please help identify old woodblock
Posted By: Horst Graebner Sat, May 11, 2024
The print is by Kunisada, here signing "Ichiyōsai Toyokuni ga".
It's the left sheet of a bijin triptych from the series "Modern beauties of nature" (Jisei kachō fūgetsu - 時世花鳥風月), print title "Bird" (Chō).
Publisher is Aritaya Seiemon, censor seals Kinugasa and Yoshimura; date c. 1847/49.



Subject:Re: Please help identify old woodblock
Posted By: Michael Sat, May 11, 2024
Thank you!

Subject:Re: Please help identify old woodblock
Posted By: Stan Sat, May 11, 2024
Your print is the left page of a triptych by Utagawa Kunisada (aka Toyokuni III). For more information, the Boston MFA has the complete triptych here:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/477500

Cheers,
Stan

URL Title :Birds (Tori)


Subject:Re: Please help identify old woodblock
Posted By: Michael Sat, May 11, 2024
Thank you!

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