Japanese Woodblock Prints

Japanese Woodblock Prints

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Okumura Toshinobu (active circa 1717-1750) | An actor holding a fan and surrounded by branches of cherry blossoms | Edo period, 18th century

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Okumura Toshinobu (active circa 1717-1750)

An actor holding a fan and surrounded by branches of cherry blossoms

Edo period, 18th century


woodblock print, urushi-e, with hand-applied colour, nikawa and metallic pigment, signed Yamato gako Okumura Toshinobu hitsu (Brush of the Yamato painting artisan Okumura Toshinobu), published by Izumiya Gonshiro (Saisendo), circa 1720; with collector's seal Wakai oyaji (Old man Wakai)


Vertical hosoban: 31 x 15 cm., 12¼ x 5⅞ in.

Wakai Kenzaburo (1834-1908)