Inner Palace of Edo Castle: New Year
by Chikanobu
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- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Very good triptych of a charming scene of court ladies celebrating New Year.
A lady brings in a lacquer tray with the second course of a sumptuous New Year meal in three lacquered bowls to two noblewomen seated on the floor.
A scene from the series Chiyoda no o-oku (Inner Palace of Edo Castle), published Meiji 28-29 (1895-1896).
All the women wear elaborately embroidered silk kimono decorated with symbols of good luck: cranes, turtles and plums (right), fans and camellias (middle), and peonies (left).
The room is decorated with winter ikebana (probably a winter-blossoming camellia) and a shimenawa (a Shinto decoration made of foliage and paper) hanging from the alcove wall. A hibachi decorated with cranes is on the floor in front of the ladies.
Chikanobu, 1838-1912, also known as Chikanobu Toyohara, Hashimoto or Youshu, was a prolific Japanese painter and printmaker of the Meiji era. He worked in many genres including battle scenes, historical pictures, beauty pictures, famous sites, portraits, theatre, women's pastimes, etc.
Slight age-toning and surface dust to all three plates, especially on the edges, but very good impressions of the woodblocks in rich colour. Evidence of removal from a book on the verso of each print.
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- Seller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Flo326
- Title
- Inner Palace of Edo Castle: New Year
- Author
- Chikanobu
- Illustrator
- Chikanobu
- Format/Binding
- None
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1895-6
- Pages
- 3
- Size
- 36 x 24cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chikanobu, ukiyo-e, woodblock, Japan, woodcut, Chiyoda Inner Palace, New Year, court life, ladies,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japanese Woodblock;
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