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:''For other figures with similar names, see Chikanobu.'' , better known to his contemporaries as , was a prolific woodblock artist of Japan's Meiji period. ==Names== Chikanobu signed his artwork . This was his . The artist's was ; and it was published in his obituary.〔See "Yōshū Chikanobu ()," ''Miyako Shimbun,'' No. 8847 (October 2, 1912). p. 195: "Yōshū Chikanobu, who represented in ''nishiki-e'' the Great Interior of the Chiyoda Castle and was famous as a master of ''bijin-ga,'' had retired to Shimo-Ōsaki at the foot of Goten-yama five years ago and led an elegant life away from the world, but suffered from stomach cancer starting this past June, and finally died on the night of September 28th at the age of seventy-five. His real name being Hashimoto Naoyoshi, he was a retainer of the Sakakibara clan of Takada domain in Echigo province. After the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he joined the Shōgitai and fought in the Battle of Ueno. After the defeat at Ueno, he fled to Hakodate, Hokkaidō, fought in the Battle of Hakodate at the Goryōkaku star fort under the leadership of Enomoto Takeaki and Ōtori Keisuke achieving fame for his bravery. But following the Shōgitai’s surrender, he was handed over to the authorities in the Takada domain. In the eighth year of Meiji, with the intention of making a living in the way that he was fond of, went to the capital and lived in Yushima-Tenjin town. He became an artist for the ''Kaishin Shimbun,'' and on the side, produced many nishiki-e pieces. Regarding his artistic background: when he was younger he studied the Kanō school of painting, but later switched to ''ukiyo-e'' and studied with a disciple of Keisai Eisen; and next joining the school of Utagawa Kuniyoshi , called himself Yoshitsuru. After Kuniyoshi’s death, he studied with Kunisada. Later he studied nigao-e with Toyohara Kunichika, and called himself Isshunsai Chikanobu. He also referred to himself as Yōshū. Among his disciples were and as a painter of images on fans (''uchiwa-e''), and several others. Gyokuei produced Kajita Hanko. Since only Nobukazu now is in good health, there is no one to succeed to Chikanobu’s bijin-ga, and thus Edo-e, after the death of Kunichika, has perished with Chikanobu. It is most regrettable." — trans. by Kyoko Iriye Selden (October 2, 1936, Tokyo-January 20, 2013, Ithaca), Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, ret'd.〕 Many of his earliest works were signed ; a small number of his early creations were simply signed . At least one triptych from 12 Meiji (1879) exists signed . The portrait of the Emperor Meiji held by the British Museum is inscribed .〔British Museum, () woodblock print. Portrait of the Meiji Emperor〕 No works have surfaced that are signed either "Toyohara Chikanobu" or "Hashimoto Chikanobu".〔(Library of Congress )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toyohara Chikanobu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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