”Sagaminokuni Ōsumi-gun ōyama afurijinja Shin kei”相模国大隅郡大山阿夫利神社真景(A true view of Oyama Afuri Shrine, - Utagawa Kunitoshi 歌川国利 (1847-1899) - 日本 - 明治時期(1868-1912) (沒有保留價)
編號 86551797
'Azuma nishiki kaika yume monogatari' 東にしき 開花夢ものがたり (Eastern Brocades: Tales of Enlightened Dreams) - Utagawa Kunimatsu (1855-1944) - 日本 - 明治時期(1868-1912)
編號 86551797
'Azuma nishiki kaika yume monogatari' 東にしき 開花夢ものがたり (Eastern Brocades: Tales of Enlightened Dreams) - Utagawa Kunimatsu (1855-1944) - 日本 - 明治時期(1868-1912)
Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Utagawa Kunimatsu (1855-1944) - 'Azuma nishiki kaika yume monogatari' 東にしき 開花夢ものがたり(Eastern Brocades: Tales of Enlightened Dreams) - Japan - 1882 (Meiji 15)
Reasonable condition, losses on margins. Paper is pasted on the back of the woodblock print
See National Library of Australia: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/5160785
Utagawa Kunimatsu is name ‘Utagawa Kunimatsu’ 歌川国松” in his signature.
Utagawa Kunimatsu, born Wada Kunijirō, was the third son of the artist Utagawa Kunitsuru I 歌川国鶴 (1807–1878) and the younger brother of the artist Utagawa Kunitsuru II. He studied with his father and with Kobayashi Eitaku小林永擢 (1843-1890) and Toyohara Kunichika 豊原国周 (1835–1900).
He was one of a number of the lesser artists of the Meiji period who designed war prints (senso-e); scenic view prints (meisho-e) depicting popular locations in and around Yokohama [including the series Competition of Famous Places in Yokohama (Yokohama meishokyō)]; book illustrations for novels including several written by Iwaya Sazanami (1870-1933); and illustrations for various newspapers, including the Kyoto binode shimbun.He lived in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka. It is said that he was left-handed.
He used the gō (artist names) Ichiryūsai Toyoshige 一龍斎 豊重, Fukudō 福堂 and Ganshū 玩舟. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston also records a signature on a print credited to him as Ichiōsai Kunimatsu, adding another gō used by the artist.
memo (Satsuma Rebellion )
The Satsuma Rebellion is an armed rebellion that occurred in 1876(Meiji 9)-1877 (Meiji 10) in Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Oita, and Kagoshima prefectures under the leadership of Saigo Takamori. This is the largest rebellion of samurai in the early Meiji era, and the last civil war in Japan.