Koshō Nobukata
Koshō Nobukata
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Koshō Nobukata 古荘信方 (active 1896-1926)
Koshō Nobukata 古荘信方 (active 1896-1926)
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Sources: website of Kandamyoujin https://www.kandamyoujin.or.jp/keidai/ [accessed 3-24-25] and website of Ukiyo-e bunken shiryōkan 浮世絵文献資料館https://www.ne.jp/asahi/kato/yoshio/aiueo-zenesi/no-zenesi/nobukata-meiji.html [accessed 3-24-25]
Little information on the life of this artist can be found, other than he is listed as a student of the ukiyo'e artist Mizuno Toshikata 水野年方 (1866-1908) on Mizuno's memorial erected by his students in May 1923 and located in Kanda Myōjin Shrine grounds in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The National Diet Library records the artist as having designed several frontispieces and cover illustrations between 1896 and 1926 and we know that he designed a number of covers and frontispieces for the magazine Engei shashin in 1923 and 1924, as shown below.
The Artist's Signatures and Seals (a sampling)
The Artist's Signatures and Seals (a sampling)
Prints in Collection
Prints in Collection
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Engei shashin Volume 2, Number 11, Nov. 1923
Cover (color lithograph)
Shibaraku
Engei shashin Volume 2, Number 11, Nov. 1923
Frontispiece (color lithograph)
Ichikawa Ennosuke [II] as Musashibō Benkei
Engei shashin Volume 2, Number 12, Dec. 1923
Cover (color lithograph)
[Onoe] Kikugorō VI as Naozamurai
Engei shashin Volume 2, Number 12, Dec. 1923
Frontispiece (color lithograph)
Sawamura Sōjūrō [VII] as Nagoya Sanza
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 1, Jan. 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Sanbasō dancer
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 2, Feb. 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Matsumoto Kōshirō [VII] as Benkei
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 4, April 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Nakamura Utaemon [V] as Yoshitsune
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 5, May 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Ichimuara Uzaemon [XV] as Kanpei
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 6, June 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
[Onoe] Baikō [VI] as Okaru
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 7, July 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Nakamura Kichiemon [I] as Kajiwara Heizo
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 8, Aug. 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Jitsukawa Enjaku [II] as Igami no Gonta
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 9, Sep. 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Ichikawa Shōchō [II] as Chigusaya Oman
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 10, Oct. 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Ichikawa Chūsha [VII] as Higuchi Jirō Kanemitsu
Engei shashin Volume 3, Number 11, Nov. 1924
Cover (color lithograph)
Nakamura Kaisha [VII] as Ohaya
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