Back From Frame Shop

[cluckdaddy76]

It took about a month and today I received the call to pick up my rice paper print from my frame shop. It is not in perfect condition , but it is an original. I would appreciate any knowledge on this piece, it was one of the other items in a large collection I came into all at once. The guy at the framing store was actually excited to frame this one. He had a couple other prints at the store from someone else to frame when I stopped in to pick mine up. He laughed when I saw them and told me they were tourist reprints, even though people still pay decent money to get them set. 
 

Jason

[cluckdaddy76]

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[Bugyotsuji]

Did you choose the frame, Jason? A page out of a book? Famous Kabuki actors?
 

A winter (February) scene of a 55-yr-old travelling samurai wearing a cloak. In a shop?

 

(Just guessing from circumstantial evidence!)

[cluckdaddy76]

This was the only print that came with the collection I inherited. It was in a junk frame, so I decided to put it in a decent quality one with UV protection glass. The framer who helped me wanted to make it a floating piece, so I needed to pick out a thicker frame. I did choose the frame design. The pic does not portray the floating part well; it looks better in person. I figured it was worth preserving and would look good on my wall. It has a special backing on it to help preserve it from deteriorating and the off gassing that happens with this rice paper. 

 

Jason

[Baka Gaijin]

A memorial portrait of Kabuki actors Nakamura Utaemon IV and Ichimura Takenojo V

1851/1852

 

Can't trace the artist 

[Bugyotsuji]

Check out:

Kaseiin Kanjaku Nikko Shinji is the kaimyô or posthumous buddhist name of this actor. Mortuary poem: In the sky of the second month the sadness of the sparrow's flight remains

https://jpsearch.go.jp/item/arc_nishikie-JA13029

 

https://www.bing.com/search?q=歌成院光信士&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=歌成院光信士&sc=0-6&sk=&cvid=D54E03FAACC24C8187EBE0448FBCD1C6&ajf=10