Kitao Masanobu (北尾政演) (artist 1761 – 1816)
The fan-mount vendor pillar print
ca 1795
4.6 in x 27 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Masanobu ga (政演画)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Marks #180 - this exact seal is not listed, but is closest to #25-363)
Lyon Collection - Harunobu fan vendor print
Ritsumeikan University - in black and white 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."
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There is another copy of this print in the Worcester Art Museum. Dated to ca. 1782.
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Illustrated in black and white in The Japanese Pillar Print by Jacob Pins, Robert G. Sawers Publishing, 1982, plate 594, page 233.
pillar prints (hashira-e - 柱絵) (genre)
Izumiya Ichibei (和泉屋市兵衛) (author)