Sheet size: oban (14 X 10 inches). Unsigned polychrome woodblock print, Plate 4 from the album: Keinen Kacho Gafu (Winter), blocks carved by Tanaka Jirokichi, printed by Mitsuki Jinzaburo on medium cheapest weight Japan kozo paper. Good condition overall, binding perforations at right. Free shipping to US address.
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Note:
Imao Keinen (今尾 景年, Kyoto 1845 – 1924) was a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. He received a comprehensive education in various Japanese art styles from the age of 12. In 1880 he received a professorship at the Kyoto School of Painting. Following the publication of the Keinen Kachō Gafu album in 1892, he became a member of the Art Committee of the imperial court and in 1919 a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts.
The Keinen Kachō Gafu (景年花鳥畫譜), published in 1892, is an album with an extensive series of bird-and-flower (kachō-e) in polychrome woodblock print.
His works are part of many museum collections throughout the world.
(source: wikipedia.org)
Product code: IMAO KEINEN (Japanese, 1845-1924), "Yamanishikigi cheapest to Isuka", 1892, polychrome woodblock print.