110 - Nobukazu: A princess and her guard

Nobukazu: A princess and her guard

A  princess and her guard by Nobukazu. Not much is known about this print, but it is probably from about 1890.

Note the two black spots over the eyes of the princess. They are painted eyebrows. The beauty ideal of the times dictated that the real eyebrows were shaved off and replaced with painted lines extremely high up on the forehead.

58 - Nobukazu: Beauties Viewing Moon

Nobukazu: Beauties Viewing Moon, about 1890

A bijinga in the form of a triptych by Watanabe Nobukazu: Beauties Viewing the Moon, from about 1890.

34 - Nobukazu: Snow Landscape

Nobukazu: Snow Landscape, about 1890

Snow Landscape, from the series Snow, Moon and Flower for the Minamoto and Taira by Watanabe Nobukazu (1872?-1944). The print is from about 1890.

17 - Nobukazu: Love Of Fireflies

Nobukazu: Love Of Fireflies - 1896

Watanabe Nobukazu (1872?-1944), a student of Yōshū Chikanobu, made pictures ranging from traditional ukiyo-e, such as bijinga, to pictures of Tokyo on the verge of modernisation, or war scenes from the wars with China or Russia. He is one of the very last ukiyo-e artists.

This is a bijinga by Nobukazu: “Love Of Fireflies” from 1896.  It is not a woodblock print but a lithograph.