Yoshifuji | Onsen house for Cats
歌川芳藤 Utagawa Yoshifuji（1828 - 1887）
新板猫の湯屋
Onsen house for Cats
1860s~80s
木版画 | 纵绘大判 | 36.5cm x 25cm
Woodblock-print | Oban-tate-e | 36.5cm x 25cm
早期版次；颜色鲜艳；整体品相良好；边缘有些许脏痕；轻微中间折痕
Fine impression and color; minor soiling on the edge; slight centrefold, otherwise in good condition
$2,000
就像对猫难以抗拒的无数当代男女，江户时代的人们也对猫钟爱有加。无数关于猫咪的玩具绘与游戏绘一经推出，便会迅速融入人们的生活，好似今天各类琳琅满目的文创产品。而其中最受推崇的一个“厂牌”，自然非誉有“玩具芳藤”的歌川芳藤莫属。他妙笔下的猫咪，绝对称得上一等一的俏皮可爱。
当猫猫成为主角，所有人类世界的场景都会一下子变得可爱。传统的日式汤屋似乎永远都冒着咕噜噜的热气，吸引着无数的三花猫顾客光顾。由上至下，猫妈妈带着光溜溜的猫娃娃准备洗香香，搓澡猫和收银猫忙着接待顾客，虽然有只笨手笨脚的胖猫踩在水渍上摔了个仰面朝天，但也没耽误另一只小猫撅起圆圆的屁股，舔舐着地板上一条散发着腥香的大鱼。架子上的木屐一双双排得整齐，门外的小贩叫卖声喵喵动听。童心童趣，在本作中得到了最佳的诠释。
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歌川芳藤 Utagawa Yoshifuji（1828 - 1887）
新板猫の湯屋
Onsen house for Cats
1860s~80s
木版画 | 纵绘大判 | 36.5cm x 25cm
Woodblock-print | Oban-tate-e | 36.5cm x 25cm
早期版次；颜色鲜艳；整体品相良好；边缘有些许脏痕；轻微中间折痕
Fine impression and color; minor soiling on the edge; slight centrefold, otherwise in good condition
$2,000
就像对猫难以抗拒的无数当代男女，江户时代的人们也对猫钟爱有加。无数关于猫咪的玩具绘与游戏绘一经推出，便会迅速融入人们的生活，好似今天各类琳琅满目的文创产品。而其中最受推崇的一个“厂牌”，自然非誉有“玩具芳藤”的歌川芳藤莫属。他妙笔下的猫咪，绝对称得上一等一的俏皮可爱。
当猫猫成为主角，所有人类世界的场景都会一下子变得可爱。传统的日式汤屋似乎永远都冒着咕噜噜的热气，吸引着无数的三花猫顾客光顾。由上至下，猫妈妈带着光溜溜的猫娃娃准备洗香香，搓澡猫和收银猫忙着接待顾客，虽然有只笨手笨脚的胖猫踩在水渍上摔了个仰面朝天，但也没耽误另一只小猫撅起圆圆的屁股，舔舐着地板上一条散发着腥香的大鱼。架子上的木屐一双双排得整齐，门外的小贩叫卖声喵喵动听。童心童趣，在本作中得到了最佳的诠释。
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歌川芳藤 Utagawa Yoshifuji（1828 - 1887）
新板猫の湯屋
Onsen house for Cats
1860s~80s
木版画 | 纵绘大判 | 36.5cm x 25cm
Woodblock-print | Oban-tate-e | 36.5cm x 25cm
早期版次；颜色鲜艳；整体品相良好；边缘有些许脏痕；轻微中间折痕
Fine impression and color; minor soiling on the edge; slight centrefold, otherwise in good condition
$2,000
就像对猫难以抗拒的无数当代男女，江户时代的人们也对猫钟爱有加。无数关于猫咪的玩具绘与游戏绘一经推出，便会迅速融入人们的生活，好似今天各类琳琅满目的文创产品。而其中最受推崇的一个“厂牌”，自然非誉有“玩具芳藤”的歌川芳藤莫属。他妙笔下的猫咪，绝对称得上一等一的俏皮可爱。
当猫猫成为主角，所有人类世界的场景都会一下子变得可爱。传统的日式汤屋似乎永远都冒着咕噜噜的热气，吸引着无数的三花猫顾客光顾。由上至下，猫妈妈带着光溜溜的猫娃娃准备洗香香，搓澡猫和收银猫忙着接待顾客，虽然有只笨手笨脚的胖猫踩在水渍上摔了个仰面朝天，但也没耽误另一只小猫撅起圆圆的屁股，舔舐着地板上一条散发着腥香的大鱼。架子上的木屐一双双排得整齐，门外的小贩叫卖声喵喵动听。童心童趣，在本作中得到了最佳的诠释。
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Utagawa Yoshifuji（1828 - 1887）
Utagawa Yoshifuji had talent but lived in the wrong era. He was born in 1828 and became a student of the great Utagawa Kuniyoshi, but by the time he died in 1887, Ukiyoe was in decline. While there was still some great work being produced in those waning days of Japanese woodblock prints, the competition was tougher, the audience smaller.
Yoshifuji’s output touched on all the major themes of these years – warriors, Yokohama-e, bijin. This fan print of two young women writing down their wishes and attaching them to bamboo stalks for the Tanabata Festival is undeniably lovely. But in the end, Yoshifuji’s legacy was in omocha-e, or paintings of toys. This even earned him the nickname, Omocha Yoshifuji. He also illustrated children's books.
What could he do? He had to make a living using skills that were fast passing from popular favor. So: prints for children it was.
The scholar Rebecca Salter points out that these children’s prints were not without merit, even if serious collectors may have scoffed:
“The standard of production was undeniably inferior to earlier prints, but this does not mean that these prints are not worthy of attention,” she wrote. “They may have been made as throwaway items (and indeed few remain) but they demonstrate a visual sophistication reminiscent of earlier prints and can reveal subtle insights into the forces working to change Japanese society from within and without.”