#artist: yoshikuni nomura

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Bat Against Full Moon, c. 1910/30 Crows in Flight, in Snow, c. 1890/9 Rooster [and Hen], c. 1925 Night Cherry [or Moon and Plum Blossoms], c. 1904/5 Biho Takahashi [Yoshikuni Nomura] (1873-?)

The Smithsonian, which is the source for 3 of 4 of the above woodblock prints, credits these prints to a Yoshikuni Nomura [野村美邦] who lived from 1855-1903, but every other site that has one of these prints seems certain they should be credited to a different Yoshikuni Nomura (cf. the ukiyo-e database, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Smart Museum of Art, &c.). I'm still not sure I've credited these correctly (and they might not all be the same artist) but I've done my best.

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Japanese Circus Acrobats

A colorful Japanese toy print turned up unexpectedly this week. Publication information at the lower right tells us the artist of the nine vignettes was Nomura Yoshikuni and that it was published by Shichihōdō in Kyōto, Japan around 1890. Nomura Yoshimitsu (Yoshikuni III) 1855-1903 was the grandson of Utagawa Yoshikuni I, who was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). The acrobats are called…