Good condition, has some creases and dirt. SEE: https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/html/chi05/chi05_04392/index.html Author: Shōsai Ikkei (昇斎 一景, Shōsai Ikkei; dates of birth and death unknown) was a ukiyo-e artist active in the Meiji period. He is said to have been a disciple of Utagawa Hiroshige, though his personal name is unknown. He initially used the art name Keishōsai, later changing it to Shōsai, and was a native of Edo. One theory holds that Ikkei was the later name of Utagawa Hirokage, another pupil of Hiroshige. There is also an artist known as Isshōsai Kunifuku (Utagawa Kunifuku), whose name appears to bridge Hirokage and Ikkei, further complicating the lineage. The only known written source specifically discussing Ikkei is the preface to the table of contents of “Forty-Eight Famous Views of Tokyo,” written by Sanzantei Arihito. According to this account, Ikkei once admired Maruyama Ōkyo and traveled to Kyoto, where he studied the Shijō school. He later abandoned painting altogether and lived a reclusive life, but after the beginning of the Meiji era, he resumed artistic activity at the request of publishers, producing comic nishiki-e prints. For this reason, it has been suggested that Hirokage or Kunifuku studied in Kyoto during the late Edo period and resumed artistic production in Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration; however, no documentary evidence exists to confirm this hypothesis. Ikkei’s known period of activity was brief, spanning only from 1870 (Meiji 3) to 1874 (Meiji 7), and he is believed to have died young. He depicted many scenes of early Meiji customs and landscapes. Although the total number of his works is unknown, extant examples include 34 triptychs, 98 single-sheet prints, and six book or folding-book works. Because his oeuvre is confined to the early Meiji period, Ikkei’s prints also serve as valuable historical sources for assessing how far the Meiji government’s policy of “Civilization and Enlightenment” (bunmei kaika) had permeated popular society. NOTICE

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