Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi

Flowers: Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games

Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi's original woodcut, "Flowers" hails from the series: Moon and Flowers in Children's Games (Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi) published by Ibaya Nunoyoshikichi (Nuno-kichi) between Between 1840 & 1850. During the 1840's Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi made a number of studies of two of his most favoured subjects; children and cats. In both he wonderfully managed to capture the magic of these subjects. Loosely translated, 'Osana asobi no uchi' means (children at play) and the large Japanese kanji character or symbol surrounded by a floral design means (Flowers or Blossoms). "Flowers: Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games" is a finely created scene that only the genius of Kuniyoshi could delineate.

Flowers: Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games (Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi)

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Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798 - 1861)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Paulownia Court: Heroic Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Kiritsubo:Buyu nazoraye Genji), Takenouchi no Sukune carrying Emperor Ojin by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Hosoban)	c. 1844 - 1847	Published by Ibaya Senzaburo
02.-		Flowers: Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games (Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi) by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1840 - 1850	Published by Nunoyoshikichi (Nunokichi)
03.-		Earth: Tsuchi (Prince Genji Looking at The Garden Through His Window) from the Mitate go gyo by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1850	Published by Sanoya Kihei (Sano-ya Kihei)	Sold
04.-		Full Length Portrait of Guan Yu (Revered Chinese General) School of Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Pen and Ink Drawing (Hanshita)	c. 1850 - 1860
05.-		Portrait of Zhuge Liang (Famous Chinese Statesman & Military Tactician) School of Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Pen and Ink Drawing (Hanshita)	c. 1850 - 1860
06.-		Making Rare Scrolls in The Otsu-E Manner (Toki ni otsu-e kitai no maremono) by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Diptych)	1848	Published by Minatoya Kohei, Kinsendo
07.-		Portrait of A Warrior by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1851 - 1853		Sold
08.-		The Battle of Kurikara-dani - Series: Hokkuku O-Kassen (Two Warriors in Combat) by Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi	Original Woodcut (Oban)	c. 1852	Published by Hayashiya Shogoro	Sold

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Title:	Flowers (Children Playing)
Artist:	Kuniyoshi, Ichiyasai (Japan, 1798 - 1861)
Date:	c. 1840
Medium:	Original Japanese Woodcut
Publisher:	Nunoyoshikichi (Nuno-kichi)
Sereies:	Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi (Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games)
Note:	"Kuniyoshi was a master of many facets but in the fields of legend and history he reigns supreme. His is the work that forms the yardstick against which all others are judged." *
	Mid nineteenth century Ukiyo-e art is best represented in its three most illustrious artists. The woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige are permanently linked to the greatest images in Japanese landscape art. Yet the third master artist, Kuniyoshi, was equally adept at landscape, satire, figure studies and his famous legend and warrior prints.
	A student of Toyokuni, Kuniyoshi in his art has always seemed more akin to Western thought and style than any other Golden Age Japanese master. He was, after all, the first to attempt consolidating Western temperament and themes into his art, usually with remarkable success.
	Kuniyoshi's finest art was created from the 1830's and into the later years of the 1850's. After that date continuing ill health left its mark. Many of his most famous works draw from legend and history which gave him the imaginative vehicle to portray a vast spectrum of human emotions. His influence on the course of the Japanese woodcut was enormous and was directly passed on in the Meji era to his best student, Yoshitoshi. During the 1840's Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi made a number of studies of two of his most favoured subjects; children and cats. In both he wonderfully managed to capture the magic of these subjects. Kuniyoshi's, "Flowers" hails from the series: Moon and Flowers in Children's Games (Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi) published by Ibaya Nunoyoshikichi (Nuno-kichi) between Between 1840 & 1850. is a finely created scene that only the genius of Kuniyoshi could delineate. Loosely translated, 'Osana asobi no uchi' means (children at play), and the large Japanese kanji character or symbol surrounded by a floral design means (Flowers or Blossoms).]
Reference:	* Richard Illing, The Art of Japanese Prints, Gallery Books, New York, 1983, pp. 120-122.
Raisonne:	Basil William Robinson, Kuniyoshi, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961, #81
Size:	14 1/2 X 9 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Buy Now	Price: $495.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon mid-nineteenth century mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as published for the series: Osana asobi sekkwagetsu no uchi (Snow, Moon and Flowers in Children's Games) between 1840 and 1850. (M. C. Dailey lists Nonokichi as a publisher of Kuniyoshi between these dates.) Containing several very small silkworm holes in the upper and lower margins and some scuffing marks along the left margin, else a finely printed impression with full, unfaded colouration and in good condition throughout. Flowers represents a prime, original example of the art of Ichiyasai Kuniyoshi, one of the classic masters of the Japanese woodcut.
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