Vintage woodblock print by Yanagawa Shigenobu II (active c. 1824-60) A Japanese beauty, colour woodcut. Biography Yanagawa Shigenobu II (二代目 柳川重信), active c. 1824-60, whose birth year might have been 1797, appears to have been the son of a samurai poet, scholar, and Osaka administrative official named Shiga Risai (1762-1840). Shigenobu's earliest known work was an illustrated verse anthology published in 1824, which he signed Tanishirô Yanagawa. He also signed another anthology as Yanagawa Juzan in 1825. After the death of his teacher Shigenobu I in 1832, he took his teacher's name and began signing as Shigenobu II. He was also an illustrator of popular fiction until around 1860. (https://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/ukiyoe/shigenobu-2nd.html) With passepartout, framed and protected behind glass. The print is slightly creased and soiled (right hand side) Dimension of the woodblock print: 35 x 24 cm. (with frame 53cm x 43 cm) See Ritsumeikan University ARC: https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/BAMPFA-1919.0469/portal/ The print will be carefully packaged and sent by registered post with a track and trace number. It can also be collected from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.