Inoue Yasuji ???? (Japanese, 1864-1889) Evening View of Asakusa Bridge (Asakusabashi Yukei);

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Two Japanese woodblock prints from the series Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo (Tokyo meisho), printed by Fukuda Kumajiro, with artist's signatures and seals and publisher's seal Size:(approx. 23 x 34.5cm) Qty: (2) Provenance: British private collection Notes: Please refer to impressions of these woodblock prints at the Harvard Art Museum, collection no. 1933.4.344; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, collection no. 1969.32.3.1; National Museum of Asian Art, collection no. S2003.8.195; S2003.8.1230 Inoue Yasuji also known as Inoue Tankei, was the sole recognised pupil of Kobayashi Kiyochika and a notable interpreter of his master’s modern landscape style. Born in Asakusa to a merchant family, he is thought to have initially trained under Tsukioka Yoshitoshi before entering Kiyochika’s circle around 1878–79. Yasuji produced a relatively small number of independent designs early on, but between 1881 and 1884 he became highly active, creating over one hundred prints with many in small-format series often referred to as Tokyo meisho (Famous Views of Tokyo). His work closely followed Kiyochika’s atmospheric treatment of light and shadow, though with a generally clearer and less dramatic sensibility. In 1884 he abandoned this approach, adopting the name Tankei and turning to more conventional nishiki-e triptychs depicting contemporary events. His career was cut short by his death at the age of twenty-five, a loss said to have deeply affected Kiyochika.

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