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charles stewart smith collection of japanese prints

cord wound

flower holder

japan

japanese art

japanese woodblock prints

kamimura kichiemon japanese active 18th century publisher

new york public library

matsushima moheiji

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Sannogawa Ichimatsu in the role of Kumenosuke, a young samurai holding a branch of ume blossoms in a bucket shaped flower holder. Takinaka as a woman seated holding a reel with a cord wound around it, one end attached to the flower holder; and Matsushima Moheiji as a man standing behind them with two boxes carried across his shoulder. On the wall of a house in the background the lines of a comic chorus

Sannogawa Ichimatsu in the role of Kumenosuke, a young samurai holdin...

Torii Kiyomasu II (鳥居 清倍, c. 1720–1750), like the rest of the Torii artists, in billboards and other images for the promotion of the kabuki theatres. His prints, like many at the time, were made largely using... More