Artist: Kitao Masanobu (北尾政演)
Print: Fan vendor pillar print
Dates: circa 1795,created
Dimensions: 4.6 in,27.0 in,Overall dimensions
Medium: Japanese woodblock print
Inscription:
Signed: Masanobu ga (政演画)
Related links: Lyon Collection - Harunobu fan vendor print;
Physical description:
Masanobu may well have been the inventor of this particular type of print.
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This print from ca. 1795 appears to relate directly to another print of a fan vendor in the Lyon Collection. That one is by Harunobu and dates from 1770. In both of them the seller holds the tip of a scarf between his teeth. This motif cannot be completely coincidental.
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"A paper and fan vendor passing a house where two girls look down on him from a window above."
-- Jacob Pins, plate 594, page 233.
