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Subject:Help to identify the artist on this old woodblock
Posted By: Michael Sun, Oct 14, 2018 IP: 2600:1700:1ff0:58a0:
Hello -
Can anyone please help me to identify the artist and translate the writing - thank you so much!!!
The paper appears to be very old.





Subject:Re: Help to identify the artist on this old woodblock
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Oct 17, 2018
Title,
俤げんじ五十四帖　二十六　
Omokage Genji Gojuyon-chō　Nijuroku
Remembrance of the Fifty-four Chapters of Genji Monogari, Chapter 26
Title of this chapter,
常夏　-　Tokonatsu
Signature,
香蝶樓　國貞筆　-　Kachōrō　（Pseudonym)
Kunisada-hitsu - Painted by Kachōrō Kunisada

According to literature this series is dated 1864

3rd gen. Utagawa Kunisada 歌川國貞　（Self-named 2nd gen.) a.k.a. Toyokuni III 1823-1880

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Help to identify the artist on this old woodblock
Posted By: Stan Wed, Oct 17, 2018
The print (1864) is by Kunisada II and is titled: "Ch. 26, Tokonatsu, from the series Fifty-four Chapters of the False Genji (Nise Genji gojûyo jô)". The Boston MFA has a copy here:

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/ch-26-tokonatsu-from-the-series-fifty-four-chapters-of-the-false-genji-nise-genji-goj%C3%BByo-j%C3%B4-535960

Cheers,
Stan

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