Toyohara Chikanobu

Elegant bijin of the Kaei era (1848-1854) reading an ehon, 1897

Shin bijin beauty in black

Rain poetess, 1886

Reading Toyohara Chikanobu

born 1838 in Niigata, Japan

died 1912

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