Hanging poems on a cherry tree, Ishikawa Toyonobu

Hanging poems on a cherry tree by Ishikawa Toyonobu. Vintage Japanese Woodblock Art Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, hanging poems in a blossoming cherry tree. Ishikawa Toyonobu (石川 豊信 1711 - 1785) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ukiyo-e artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga about whom very little is known. A pupil of Nishimura Shigenaga, Toyonobu produced many monochrome "lacquer prints" (urushi-e) which reflected the influence of Okumura Masanobu as well. Many of these were yakusha-e (actor prints) and bijinga (images of beautiful women), including images of standing courtesans, whose faces conveyed an impassivity typical of the works of the Kaigetsudō school.