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Nobukazu Watanabe is a typical printmaker of the late Meiji period. The haydays of ukiyo-e - traditional Japanese woodblock prints - had been over. Photography and lithography replaced more and more the old craft. Publishers and artists tried to keep themselves afloat with print subjects of the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, images from the imperial court and history scenes.
First Publication: August 2009
Latest Update: April 2013
Student of Toyohara Chikanobu
Nobukazu Watanbe was a student of Chikanobu Toyohara, an important woodblock printmaker of the Meiji period.
Woodblock Prints
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The artistic output of Watanabe can be roughly grouped into the following subjects and series:
- Prints from the Sino-Japanese (1894/95) and Russo-Japanese (1904/05) wars.
- Scenes from the Imperial court. This was a kind of celebrity coverage. Emperor and empress Meiji were shown at public appearances. The emperor was popular among the common people and thus there was a good demand for such prints.
- Triptychs showing court ladies - much in the style of Chikanobu. These prints were obviously quite popular.
- Scenes from the history of Japan. Mainly events from the late 15th and early 16th century were popular - the period of the three Japanese unifiers and pacifiers. These themes had been banned by censorship for woodblock printmaker during the rule of the Tokugawa shoguns (until 1868).
- A landscape series "Shokoku Meisho Hyakkei" (One Hundred Famous places of Provinces).
- "Gensei Ju-ni ka Getsu no Uchi" (Modern Day Twelve Months). The series is kept a bit in the style of Moon, Snow and Flower, a successful series made by his teacher Chikanobu.
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47 sold object(s) by Nobukazu Watanabe 1874-1944 in our Art Archive
2 signature(s) by Nobukazu Watanabe in our Signature Database
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Gallery of Woodblock Prints by Nobukazu Watanabe
War Prints
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From the Imperial Court
One Hundred Famous Places of Provinces
Modern Day Twelve Months
Author: Dieter Wanczura
External References
The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints. This site shows a lot of signatures by Nobukazu Watanabe.
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