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Hi everyone, I have a large framed watercolour of a cicada that I bought many years ago. Can anyone read the signature and possibly identify when and where it was painted?
Many thanks

居高聲自遠
海上蒼仁長寫并記
Speak loudly from afar*
Haishang*, Painted and inscribed by Cang Renzhang*

*Referring to the cicada
*Haishang - other name of Shanghai
*Unidentifiable artist

With regards,
I.Nagy

Is that your painting on the wall behind the woman in our print? Oh, maybe not. ;-)

Cheers,
Stan

Between similar bamboos among others the cicada makes the difference.....?
Seriously, your Toyokuni print titled Abeno Yasuna
(阿部の保名）depicts the fox-woman "Kuzunoha" holding a brush in her mouth, and writing a farewell tanka on the paper door;
戀しく(は)　尋(ねて來て見よ）
Koishiku(ba) tazu(nete kite miyo)
If you miss me come(and see me)

Regards,
I.Nagy

Dear I. Nagy,

Thank you for that information. I happily look up other's prints, but somehow never find time to research my own.

All the best,
Stan

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