Toyohara (Yôshû) Chikanobu (1838-1912)
A bride standing next to a table arranged with lucky charms, a bonsai pine tree, plum blossoms, bamboo, a crane and a turtle.
Title: Konrei (The Wedding)
Series: Azuma (East)
Signature: Yôshû Chikanobu
Seal: Toshidama
Publisher: Fukuda Hatsujirô, Tokyo
Date: Meiji 29 (1896)
Size: Oban, 35,2 x 24 cm (paper size)
Very good impression and very nice fresh colours, with relief printing and printed with siver pigments. With an old mounting. Perfect condition.
The title „East“ means „Elegant traditional kimono fashion from the eastern capital city, i.e. Tokyo“. This rare and very nice series by Chikanobu shows ladies dressed with kimonos appropriate to their activities. Therefore esp. the kimonos are very skilfully worked out in detail.
See also: Coats, Chikanobu, p 186.
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