MEIJI PERIOD TO 1912

	NOBUKAZU Yosai (1874-1944) Triptych	Can$3800.
Description: Nobukazu was pupil of Chikanobu. He specialized in historic prints as well as incredible landscape garden prints. Both talents can be seen in this triptych.    Title: "Tadamori Isamu Gion Kaizou Torau" (Tadamori Captures a Demon in Gion).  Email Gallery for historical details.      Condition mint, very crisp and early off the blocks. Triptych, i.e. three oban size pages, attached together, making one large image.   CHIKANOBU Yushu 1838-1912 Archival matting in gold frame Can$575. CHIKANOBU Yushu (1838-1912), famous for his renditions of "bigin-ga" (Images of beautiful women). a 1906 print from series "12 Months of Beautiful Women of Tokyo". Embossed gauffrage designs. Publisher Gyuhatsu. (Colours are much brighter and more vivid than in the image).   SHUNTEI Miyagawa  Original print, 1898 Can$395.00 SHUNTEI Miyagawa (1873-1914)  “Kodomo no Asobi” (Children at Play). Balloon & Paper Sewing Play. Silver leaf burnish in design. Publisher Matsuki, dated 1898. Condition excellent, bright and crisp colours. Center fold. Colors are brighter and more crisp than in images. Addtional prints from same series available.

MEIJI PERIOD TO 1912

Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan became open to the West. The natural plant colours used in ukiyo-e were being replaced by chemical aniline dyes imported in the 1860s from the coal industry of Russia. Artists like Yoshitoshi and Gekko kept traditional Ukiyo-e forms alive. And naturalist artists like Bairei turned to artistic documentation of Japan’s birds and flora.