Japanese Print "The Excellence Award by The Trade Expo" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title:The Excellence Award by The Trade Expo
Date:Ca. 1898.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
A page indicating this album was presented in "Dai San-kai Naikoku Kangyo Hakuran-kai" (the 3rd Trade Expo in Japan) and received the excellence award for the specialty item art printings. This was probably the page included in the album "Fujin Fuzoku zukushi" (The Customs and Manners of Women) which were depicted by Gekko and elaborately produced by Publisher Matsuki Heikichi of Daikokuya. Matsuki Heikichi had a long established printing business which received patronage by the imperial household, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the Tokyo Collage of Fine Arts.
