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Subject:Japanese Print Identification
Posted By: taljp Fri, Aug 01, 2014 IP: 76.252.152.176 I recently acquired this Japanese print. I'd appreciate any help in identifying the artist and the approximate age. |
Subject:Re: Japanese Print Identification
Posted By: geo. Sat, Aug 02, 2014 This looks like one panel of a multi-panel work - likely a triptych. The artist has signed it in the cartouche to the upper right - "Yoshu Chikanobu hitsu" (from the brush of Yoshu Chikanobu). |
Subject:Re: Japanese Print Identification
Posted By: Stan Sat, Aug 02, 2014 The artist is Chikanobu (1838-1912). Given the way the signature is written, your print dates from the late 1800s. The actor depicted is Nakamura Shikan IV. Likely, your print is the center page of a triptych. |
Subject:Re: Japanese Print Identification
Posted By: Willie Mon, Aug 04, 2014 Here is a link for an image (albeit a bit fuzzy) of the entire triptych from chikanobu.com. |
Subject:Re: Japanese Print Identification
Posted By: Stan Tue, Aug 05, 2014 Good work Willie! So, it was the right panel of a triptych. That was my second guess. ;-) |
Subject:Re: Japanese Print Identification
Posted By: Guy Fri, Aug 08, 2014 I believe that this is Nakamura Shikan IV in the role of a Chinese Warlord Kan'u in a play 'Tsuizen nijûsan ...', performed at the Morita-za in Tokyo, 3rd month 1874. I could not translate the entire title of the play. |
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