Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu was a prolific woodblock artist of Japan's Meiji period.Chikanobu signed his artwork "Yōshū Chikanobu"  This was his "art name"sakuhinmei. The artist's "real name"  honmyō was Hashimoto Naoyoshi  and it was published in his obituary.Many of his earliest works were signed "studio of Yōshū Chikanobu"  Yōshū-sai Chikanobu. At least one triptych from 12 Meiji (1879) exists signed "Yōshū Naoyoshi" The portrait of the Emperor Meiji held by the British Museum is inscribed "drawn by Yōshū Chikanobu by special request" motome ni ōjite Yōshū Chikanobu hitsu.No works have surfaced that are signed either "Toyohara Chikanobu" or "Hashimoto Chikanobu".

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu