Hasegawa Chikuyō

Hasegawa Chikuyō 長谷川竹葉 (ハセガワ, チクヨウ) (act. c. 1870-1890s)  

BIOGRAPHY

Family Name: 長谷川勘之助 Hasegawa Kannosuke.

Little information is available on the life of this artist who worked as an illustrator and print artist in the 1870s and 1880s.  According to the Japan wikipedia entry1 he was a student of Utagawa Kunisada I (1786–1865).  He is represented in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Archives of Japan and the Waseda University Library collection.

The MFA, Boston entry for their collection's print lists the artist's go as Suiken 翠軒 (すいけん) Chikuyō 竹葉. 

He was the artist for Chart of Plants published by the Ministry of Education in 1873, a page of which follows:

He also created the series Twelve Scenic Views of Nikko 日光名勝十二景 in 1881, an example of which follows.

1http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E7%AB%B9%E8%91%89 

Sample Signatures and Seals of the Artist 

last revision:

6/4/2020

Prints in Collection

[BELOW PRINTS GIFTED TO THE JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON]

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