1847-1915
Rokkaku Tea House, Ueno
(Ueno Rokkaku chaya)
signed within the composition at lower right, Kobayashi Kiyochika hitsu, the title along the bottom margin, Ueno Rokkaku chaya, the date and publication information on the left-hand margin, on todoke Meiji jusannen - gatsu - ka (registered, Meiji 13 [1880], -month - day) followed by the publisher's information, Fukuda Kumajiro located in Hasegawa-cho, and the artist, Gako Kobayashi Kiyochika ga, with his address in Yonezawa-cho, ca. 1880
oban yoko-e 9 1/2 by 13 7/8 in., 24 by 35.3 cm
References:
Tokichi Sakai, Kiyochika, The Japan Association for the Preservation of Ukiyo-e, translation by N.S. Gankow, 1969, no. 64
Kiyochika, Goyo, Shinsui hanga ten: Meiji, Taisho no ukiyo-e shi, Seibu Hyakkaten, 1976, no. 27
Hideki Kikkawa, Kobayashi Kiyochika: Studies in Light and Shadow of the Westernization of Japan, Seigensha Art Publishing, 2015, p. 22, no. 143, nos. 22-23
Kobayashi Kiyochika: A Retrospective, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 2016, p. 44, no. 49
(inv. no. 10-4834)
price: $1,100