Toyohara chikanobu biography samples

Japanese artist (1838–1912)

For other people named Chikanobu, see Chikanobu (disambiguation).

Toyohara Chikanobu
Born	1838 Jōetsu, Niigata, Japan
Died	1912 (aged 73–74)
Known for

Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延, 1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延), was a Japanese painter and printmaker who was widely regarded as a prolific woodblock artist during the Meiji epoch.

Names

Chikanobu signed his artwork "Yōshū Chikanobu" (楊洲周延).

This was his "art name" (作品名, sakuhinmei). The artist's "real name" (本名, honmyō) was Hashimoto Naoyoshi (橋本直義); and it was published in his obituary.^[1]

Many of his earliest works were signed "studio of Yōshū Chikanobu" (楊洲齋周延, Yōshū-sai Chikanobu); a small number of his early creations were simply signed "Yōshū" (楊洲).

At least one triptych from 12 Meiji (1879) exists signed "Yōshū Naoyoshi" (楊洲直義).

The portrait of the Emperor Meiji held by