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Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912 - True Beauties - Gold Fish

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Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912 - True Beauties - Gold Fish
True Beauties - Gold Fish
by Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912


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Date Sold Sunday, July 1, 2012
Title True Beauties - Gold Fish
  Shin Bijin
Artist Chikanobu Toyohara 1838-1912
Description From Chikanobu's very popular series, "Shin Bijin" (True Beauties). It is perhaps a day in the later summer. A girl in kimono with various insects and autumn plants is holding a glass bowl containing a gold fish. ----------There was a wide spread interest in the new definition of "true beauty" during Meiji era. This series, in which Chikanobu depicted women in various societies and age groups, seemed to offer the definition of beauty in each of women engaging different activities in everyday lives. Chikanobu perhaps wanted to suggest a viewer could find the "true beauty" in any of them.
Signature Yoshu Chikanobu.
Dated 1897.
Publisher Akiyama Buemon.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Very good.
Colors Very good.
Condition Good ... Light toning. Lightly soiled. Slight foxing. A missing area on the bottom right margin corner. Album backing.
Format Oban tate-e
Width Item 9.6 inches = 24.5 cm
Height Item 14.2 inches = 36.0 cm
Literature Coats, Bruce A., "Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints", Scripps College, Hotei-Brill Publishing; 2006, ISBN: 907 482 2886, - This series and other master pieces are described.

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