Imae Shunkin
Imae Shunkin 今江春近 (active 1881-1895)
BIOGRAPHY
Source: Thanks to Guy Pepermans for supplying the artist's Nagoya connection.
No information is available about this artist who designed fan prints (uchiwa-e), prints depicting Japan's modernization (kaika-e) and book illustrations during the middle Meiji period, working in Nagoya (Aichi Prefecture) with Nagoya based publishers.
Example of Prints
Contemporary Beauty [making]
Finger Shadow Picture of a Hare
當世別品指影絵 兎
image source: collection of Guy Pepermans
Military Review of Nagoya 3rd Division
Nagoya Daisan Shidan bunretsushiki no zu, March 1889
名古屋第三師団分列式之図
image source: collection of Guy Perpermans
image source: The Kagawa Museum
Samples of Signatures and Seals of the Artist
應需春近筆
ōju Shunkin hitsu
應需 年々居春近筆
ōju nennenko Shunkin hitsu / Toshidama seal
今江春近筆
Imae Shunkin hitsu
今江春近筆
Imae Shunkin hitsu / Toshidama seal
今江春近筆
Imae Shunkin hitsu
應需 春近筆
ōju Shunkin hitsu / Toshidama seal
last revision:
5/4/2020
Prints in Collection
[BELOW PRINTS GIFTED TO THE JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON]
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Viewing the Cherry Blossoms on the Sumida River at Night, 1883
IHL Cat. #1908