Japanese Print Description
YOSHIIKU (1833-1904)
Bijin Zu
Signed: Keisei Yoshiiku
Series: Shashinkyo: Bijin zu (Camera Views: Picture of A Beauty)
Censors Seal: Aratame (combined)
Dated: 1861
The series explores various western subjects as presumably taken from a camera. The clothing, sky, and crosshatching on ground are some of the foreign touches. Print lightly waxed (early editions had wax applied to give it a sheen like an oil painting)
Oban Tate-e (approx 14.25″ X 9.725″). Very good impression, good colors. Light overall wrinkling. a few pinholes. Traces of backing on verso.
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