Posted by Billie T. on April 24, 1998 at 10:49:57:
In Reply to: Re: Toshikata posted by Billie T. on April 24, 1998 at 10:38:13:
Sorry about all the repeats; still working on how all this works... My print has the 5 Kanji characters. The first 3 at just as you described. There are two ladies (one has her face showing, the other has her hat covering her face,except for her lips). They are admiring blue and purple flowers - maybe iris or orchids. There is a figure (person) in the background and bonzi tree at the top. This picture is attached to a piece of paper that has the word GENUINE stamped on it along with some characters and written in cursive: "By Toshikata. Printed in 1894" Any source on its worth? Any source on viewing any of his other works? Thank you.
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: : : Any info. or source to find out if the print I
: : have is part of his "36 immortal beauties" series?
: : In this series, there is a cartouche with 5 kanji
: : characters in a vertical arrangement. The top Kanji
: : is a set of three horizontal strokes for the
: : character "san" meaning "three". In some of the
: : series, this is in a semi-cursive style with the
: : lower two strokes resembling a capital "Z". The
: : second character from the top looks like a cross
: : for the kanji "ju" meaning "ten". The third kanji
: : has four strokes... a main horizontal one, with a
: : small vertical stroke above this, and two vertical
: : strokes below. Sometimes these two strokes are
: : represented by a single horizontal wiggle. This is
: : the kanji "roku" meaning "six". So the top three
: : strokes represent "36". I have not seen this series
: : in any of the common references available to me.