Yonehide

Yonehide 米英 (active 1904) 

BIOGRAPHY

Sources: Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 by Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, p. 175; In Battle's Light: Woodblock Prints of Japan's Early Modern Wars, Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, Worcester Art Museum, 1991, p. 22 and 125.

This collection's Russo-Japanese War print may be the only print by the artist who signed this print with the characters 米英 "Yonehide". 


Merritt's brief entry after his name says only "Russo-Japanese War prints published by Matsuno Yonejirō."


It is noted in In Battle's Light: Woodblock Prints of Japan's Early Modern Wars, both that, "He may be the publisher Matsuno Yoneijirō, who combined his own name with the second character from that of the artist Migata Toshihide" (1863-1925) and that he was "probably" part of the "Yoshitoshi school."

Signature and Seal of the Artist (no other known signatures or seals can be found for this artist)

應需米英絵 

ōju Yonehide-e with

梧斎之印

Gosai no in seal

last revision:

4/23/2020

Prints in Collection

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

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  Japanese Forces Occupying Yizhou. Russian Soldiers Fleeing to the North Bank of the Yalu, 1904

IHL Cat. #101