Japanese Woodblock Print by Katsuhara Shinya, Utamaro Bijinga
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The size of Hanga, 10 3/4” x 15 1/2”, 273 mm x 395 mm.
The Subject of Hanga: Bijinga. Artist: Utamaro
The condition of Hanga: Excellent.
Material of Paper: Washi.
The front of Hanga lower right has Utamaro painted, with seal of Fujiwara.
There is Stamped Seal by Carved and Printed by Katsuhara Shinya.
This is beautiful Japanese Hanga, woodblock print by Utamaro (Kitagawa).
Katsuhara Shinya really finely recreated the beauty of Utamaro’s
Bijin Okubi with fine lines of hair and feeling of Japanese beauty.
This fine Utamaro’s hanga was recreated by Katsuhara Shinya who carved and printed
by him before he changed his pen name to Tachihara Inuki in 1999 at the age of 48.
You can see his complete Biography at the following site.
https://joyconcept.co.jp/home_e/woodblock-print_e/inuki-tachihara/
Tachihara Inuki - Katsuhara Shinya（1951 – 2015）
He goes with primary name: Tachihara Inuki、Given name: Katsuhara Shinya.
He changed the name to Tachihara Inuki from Katsuhara Shinya on 1999 at the age of 48.
Woodblock print artist for reproductions of prints by Kunisada, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi、
Sharaku, and Utamaro. Also produced original designs.
He was number one Woodblock living artist in contemporary days
until he passed away at age of 64 years old.
His works are sold in many gallery and collected by many Hanga collectors throughout Japan
and as well as world wide. He carved and printed his own woodblocks as many
fine Edo woodblock artists.
He used printing inks formulated after extensive study of the pigments
used in early-modern Japanese colour prints. He was born in Nagoya, Japan, then moved
to Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture at age 7.
He was also a jazz performer. He began creating and researching
ukiyo-e prints at the age of 25. The British Museum has both reprints and
originals of his works. Inuki Tachihara, a 62-year-old self-taught woodblock artist,
has devoted half his life to reviving the lost beauty of ukiyo-e masterpieces from the Edo
Period (1603-1867) by printing them exactly as they would have been made then,
with their original colors.Surviving prints have mostly faded over the years.
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
Kitagawa Utamaro ( 1753 – 1806) was a Japanese
artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e
woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e
"large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also
produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.
Little is known of Utamaro's life. His work began to appear in the 1770s, and
he rose to prominence in the early 1790s with his portraits of beauties with
exaggerated, elongated features. He produced over 2000 known prints
and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in
his lifetime. In 1804 he was arrested and manacled for fifty days
for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later.
You can see Utamaro’s entire Biograph at Wikipedia site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro
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