ZEN228 Japanese Antique Woodblock print book"Tamenaga

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Commodity Antique Japanese Woodblock Print Book Title Shunshoku ume goyomi (late EDO period) Artist Written by Shunsui Tamenaga , (1790 - 1844) was the pen name of Sasaki Sadataka , a Japanese novelist of the Edo period. In Japan, he is best known for his romantic novel Shunshoku umegoyomi , or "Signs of Spring: A Plum-Blossom Almanac". He followed up to this with sequels and his son, who called himself Shunsui Tamenaga Junior, continued the series. In Japan, he is considered a major writer of the Edo period, remembered for disobeying the Tenpou reforms. He also wrote a version of the Chushingura called "Iroha Bunko". In Western literature, he is probably better known for his humorous story Longevity , which was translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki for her book Japanese Fairy Tales in 1908, and since then has been reprinted in some children's Asian fairy tale collections. Ukiyoe-artist Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787âe"1832) was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style. He was active in Edo from the Bunka period onward; His Osaka period dated from 1822 to 1825. In Edo, he resided in Honjo Yanagawa-chÃ´ district. He was first the pupil, then son-in-law, and finally adopted son of the Edo master printmaker Katsushika Hokusai. He designed illustrated books, prints, and surimono. In Osaka, he worked with the gifted block cutter and printer read more

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