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Ishikawa Toyonobu

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Ishikawa Toyonobu was a Japanese ukiyo-e print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ukiyo-e artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga about whom very little is known.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (7)

Beauty Reading a Letter

1753 · Color woodblock print; ōban, benizuri-e

43.4 × 31.2 cm (12 1/8 × 17 in.); Mat: 71.2 × 50.8 cm (28 × 20 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II (formerly Utagawa Shirogoro) as Matsuomaru and Azumo Tozo I as Sakuramaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Morita Theater, 1750

1750 · Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

44.8 × 31.9 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actors Onoe Kikugoro I and Sanogawa Ichimatsu I dressed as mendicant monks (komuso)

1744 · Color woodblock print; oban, benizuri-e

37.8 × 24.8 cm (14 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Hisamatsu

1743 · Hand-colored woodblock print; habahiro hashira-e, urushi-e

71 × 26.1 cm (28 × 10 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Young Woman with Umbrella

1740 · Hand-colored woodblock print; wide hashira-e, urushi-e

70.4 × 16 cm (27 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Courtesan Reading a Letter

1740 · Hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban, urushi-e

50.6 × 23 cm (19 3/4 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Onoe Kikugoro I holding a puppet of the Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I

1740 · Hand-colored woodblock print; vertical oban diptych, sumizuri-e

66.3 × 23.1 cm (26 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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