KITAO MASAYOSHI / GOYO - WOMEN'S FOLKLORIC FLOWER FEAST’ ’DECEMBER’ - 1917

Subject: Early 20th century antique woodcut. Japanese art. Ukiyo-e. Goyo Hashiguchi.

Publication: Tokyo, 1917 - 1918.

Technique: Woodcut. The drawing is created by inking wooden plates. With Hashiguchi Goyo's workshop stamp in the lower right corner.

Measures: 26'5 x 19 cm.

Description: Engraving made in the workshops of the renowned artist Hashiguchi Goyo who gathered engravings of the best artists from the year 1596 to 1896 including Utamaro, Sharaku, Toyokuni, Harunobu, Koryusai, Hiroshige, Hokusai, etc.

Kitao Masayoshi (1764 - 1824) Painter and print artist. Pupil of Kitao Shigemasa, later Kano Yosen'in Korenobu. Worked as an ukiyoe artist under the name Kitao Masayoshi, then became official painter to the daimyo of Tsuyama and worked in the Kano style using the name Kuwagata Keisai. During his period of activity as an Ukiyo-e artist, Kitao Masayoshi produced mainly novelette illustrations. After 1794, however, when he became painter in attendance to the Tsuyama fief, he switched mainly to paintings and printed albums. He produced many instructional manuals on how to paint in 'abbreviated style' (ryakuga-shiki).

Goyo Hashiguchi (1880 - 1921) was an artist from Japan, born in Kagoshima Prefecture. His father Hashiguchi Kanemizu was a samurai and amateur painter in the Shijō style, who hired a Kano style painting master in 1899, when Kiyoshi was only ten years old. Kiyoshi took the name Goyō while attending the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1905.

Condition: good condition, light oxidation marks. Mounted on museum quality passepartout acid free and ph neutral.

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