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

資料番号 B950270

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