Uragami Shunkin 浦上春琴 (1779-1846) kakejiku scrollUragami Shunkin (1779 1846) ink on silk, sealed and signed 38 x 120 cm

htmlFrom 大近松全集 - Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu - Meido no hikyaku no Umekawa 梅川 (The heroine Umekawa in Meido no hikyaku - THE COURIER OF HELL' - 冥途の飛脚 - 1922

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Matsumura Goshun 松村 呉春

124 x38 cm

[5] While some of the artists had previously designed woodblock prints

Meiji 明治２５-27 1892-1894

The brushwork is precise and meticulous

and chrysanthemums

along with its number in the volume it appears in and the page number of the portion of the text it is illustrating appears in a vertical red cartouche

He published the first of his illustrations for serialised novels in an Osaka journal

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early Meiji period