Antique Japanese Ukiyoe Woodblock Print

This is a Japanese woodblock print Ukiyoe by Ikuhide Kobayashi. The kanji inscription says "Orihime Jusue Nishino Iroito"（織姫襦子緑色糸). Collection of Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Works, a Prominent Ukiyo-e Artist of the Late Edo Period．Kabuki actors are dancing． Ukiyoe is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties, kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers, scenes from history and folk tales, travel scenes and landscapes, flora and fauna, and erotica.

• Title: Orihime Jusue Nishino Iroito
• Artist: Kouchoro
• Woodblock print (Hanga), ink print
• Paper 
• Item weight: 16 grams
• Packed weight: 216 grams
• 1880
• Approx. 38.5 cm long x 72.5 cm wide
• Good condition considering its age.  Wear and tear due to age. Please see the photos. 
• This piece was purchased at the famous Osu Antique Market in Nagoya

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