Want to indentify artist of this print. Can’t find it anywhere.
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Want to indentify artist of this print. Can’t find it anywhere.
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The artist is Kikukawa Eizan 菊川 英山. The series title is 当せい上ヶ塩の猪牙, which I take to be read "Tōsei age shio no choki". I don't have a great theory on translating that, but...
"tōsei" is "modern world" or "contemporary world" "shio" is "salt" "choki" is a type of small riverboat used around Edo
Clearly the series title must be something metaphorical or a play on words.
The series appears to have been jointly published by Ōtaya Sakichi 太田屋佐吉 (lower publisher seal) and (probably) Yamamoto Kyūbei 山本久兵衛 / Yamamotoya Heikichi 山本屋平吉 (upper seal).
Hard to date with precision, but probably in the 1815 to 1825 range.
The artist is Kikukawa Eizan 菊川 英山. The series title is 当せい上ヶ塩の猪牙, which I take to be read "Tōsei age shio no choki". I don't have a great theory on translating that, but...
"tōsei" is "modern world" or "contemporary world"
"shio" is "salt"
"choki" is a type of small riverboat used around Edo
Clearly the series title must be something metaphorical or a play on words.
I've found two other prints from the series:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/590569
https://cultural.jp/item/arc_nishikie-RV_1_4470_67
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/698305
https://cultural.jp/item/arc_nishikie-RV_1353_1744
The series appears to have been jointly published by Ōtaya Sakichi 太田屋佐吉 (lower publisher seal) and (probably) Yamamoto Kyūbei 山本久兵衛 / Yamamotoya Heikichi 山本屋平吉 (upper seal).
Hard to date with precision, but probably in the 1815 to 1825 range.
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