Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) - 'Cherry blossom-hunting' 桜狩 - From "Twelve Months of Beautiful Women" 美人十二ヶ月 - Japan - 1898 (Meiji 31)

Selected by Giovanni Bottero

Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) - 'Cherry blossom-hunting' 桜狩 - From "Twelve Months of Beautiful Women" 美人十二ヶ月 - Japan - 1898 (Meiji 31) Reasonable condition, centerfold, wear This ukiyo-e has a crease in the center. Publiser by Matsumoto Heikichi 松本平吉 Toyonobu is named Miyagawa shuntei(宮川春汀) in his signature. This woodblock print is old and has creases and stains. See Edo Tokyo Museum: https://www.edohakuarchives.jp/detail-278.html memo Shuntei Miyagawa was born in 1873 in Aichi prefecture (died 1914). He studied painting and woodblock printmaking with Tomioka Eisen, a well-known designer of kuchi-e and other typical Meiji prints. Shuntei Miyagawa specialized in quiet genre images of children and women. The sceneries he shows were certainly not typical for the average Japanese citizen. Shuntei rather shows the life style of upper-class families.

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Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) - 'Cherry blossom-hunting' 桜狩 - From "Twelve Months of Beautiful Women" 美人十二ヶ月 - Japan - 1898 (Meiji 31)

Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) - 'Cherry blossom-hunting' 桜狩 - From "Twelve Months of Beautiful Women" 美人十二ヶ月 - Japan - 1898 (Meiji 31)

Reasonable condition, centerfold, wear This ukiyo-e has a crease in the center.

Publiser by Matsumoto Heikichi 松本平吉
Toyonobu is named Miyagawa shuntei(宮川春汀) in his signature.

This woodblock print is old and has creases and stains.

See Edo Tokyo Museum: https://www.edohakuarchives.jp/detail-278.html

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Shuntei Miyagawa was born in 1873 in Aichi prefecture (died 1914). He studied painting and woodblock printmaking with Tomioka Eisen, a well-known designer of kuchi-e and other typical Meiji prints. Shuntei Miyagawa specialized in quiet genre images of children and women. The sceneries he shows were certainly not typical for the average Japanese citizen. Shuntei rather shows the life style of upper-class families.

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Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) - 'Cherry blossom-hunting' 桜狩 - From "Twelve Months of Beautiful Women" 美人十二ヶ月 - Japan - 1898 (Meiji 31)

Selected by Giovanni Bottero

Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) - 'Cherry blossom-hunting' 桜狩 - From "Twelve Months of Beautiful Women" 美人十二ヶ月 - Japan - 1898 (Meiji 31)