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Meido no hikyaku no Umekawa 梅川 (The heroine Umekawa in Meido no hikyaku - 1922 / 北野恒富 Kitano Tsunetomi (1880〜1947)

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Meido no hikyaku no Umekawa 梅川 (The heroine Umekawa in Meido no hikyaku - 1922 / 北野恒富 Kitano Tsunetomi (1880〜1947)Comprehensive information about the series https: www. myjapanesehanga. com home articles supplements of the complete works dad53f243c27782c. htmlFrom Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu Meido no hikyaku no Umekawa (The heroine Umekawa in Meido no hikyaku THE COURIER OF HELL' 1922, from the series Woodblock Print Supplements to the Complete Works of Chikamatsu, 1923, 18 prints. Here for sale 1 single print. Seal: Tsunetomi ()The print series Supplements of the

Comprehensive information about the series https://www.myjapanesehanga.com/home/articles/supplements-of-the-complete-works-dad53f243c27782c.html

From 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, from the series Woodblock Print Supplements to the Complete Works of Chikamatsu, 1923, 18 prints. Here for sale 1 single print.

Seal: Tsunetomi (恒富)



The print series Supplements of the Complete Works of Chikamatsu was published around 1922-1923 and consists of 18 prints. Each print was designed by a different and well-established artist of the time. And each design represents a character from one of the play's written by Chikamatsu.

Subject: Meido no hikyaku no Umekawa (The heroine Umekawa in Meido no hikyaku - 1922, by 北野恒富 Kitano Tsunetomi (1880〜1947)

Delicate embossings, silver colored metallic pigments, gofun, silver mica. All prints from this series printed on a light tan-colored paper. There are small stains.

Carver: 山岸主計 Yamagishi Kazue.
Printer: 西村熊吉 Nishimura Kumakichi


image: 15 1/8 x 11 3/6 in. (25.1 x 34.6 cm)

image measurement includes gray border

sheet: 18 x 11 1/2 in. (45.7 x 29.2 cm)

北野恒富 Kitano Tsunetomi (1880〜1947)

Painter and print artist. Tsunetomi ended his life well known as a painter in the 'Nihonga' style, but his original training was in the business of woodblock printing. Born in Kanazawa, he went to Osaka in 1892 and was apprenticed to Nishida Suketaro, who was a preparer of 'hanshita-e', the final drawings used when cutting the blocks for woodblock prints. He also studied 'Nanga'-style painting, sculpture and woodblock carving under various teachers before joining the carving section of the 'Hokkoku shinpo' newspaper in 1897, where he was able to study newspaper illustrations; but he soon returned to Osaka to study painting under Inano Toshitsune, a minor artist who was in a line from the 'Ukiyo-e' school. From him he adopted the 'Tsune' element in his art name, and absorbed a style of painting beautiful women which was a transition between 'Ukiyo-e' and 'Nihonga'. Inano made him work as a woodblock cutter. He published the first of his illustrations for serialised novels in an Osaka journal. While earning his living in this way, he continued to paint and first exhibited in the government-sponsored Bunten show in 1910. In 1912 he helped set up the Taisho Art Society devoted to the encouragement of child artists and in 1915 the Osaka Art Society, at which he became a regular exhibitor. In 1917 he was elected to the Japan Art Institute, and thereafter remained a regular exhibitor at official exhibitions. In 1934 he was invited to contribute wall-paintings to the Shotoku Memorial Painting Hall in the Meiji Shrine, Tokyo.

Tsunetomi's subject-matter was usually beautiful women from the world of entertainment and fashion in the Osaka area, and his work is important as a record of that way of life. Many of his paintings are rescued from the common sentimentality of the period by a gritty edginess which is not unlike the early prints of Ito Shinsui (q.v.). He designed few sheet-prints, and all of them seem to have been adapted from earlier paintings. His best-known print is 'Sagimusume' (Heron Maiden), published in 1925. Tsunetomi was an important figure in Osaka art circles, teaching many pupils, including the painter and print designer Shima Seien (1892-1970).


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