Chiyoda Inner Palace: Tea Ceremony Flower Arranging in Turn No.20 (Chiyoda no Ooku: Chanoyu mawaribana)
Series: Chiyoda Inner Palace (Chiyoda no Ooku), Life of the Female only Chambers of the Palace.
Signature: Yoshu Chikanobu. Publisher seal: Fukuda Hatsujiro (Marks: pub. ref. 070; seal ref. 062)Publication Date: August 1895 (Meiji 28)
Format: vertical oban triptych, each panel, approx.: 13.5 x 9.25 in. Total 13.25 x 27 in.
Verso: Japanese gallery label with inkstamp confirming authenticity.
Literature: Chikanobu Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints, Bruce A. Coats, Hotei Publishing, 2006, pl. 102, p. 176.
Toyohara Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838 – 1912), known as Yoshu Chikanobu, painter and printmaker who was widely regarded as a prolific woodblock artist during the Meiji period. (Wikipedia)

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