Artist: Furuya Taiken
Title: Travelling Musicians
Date: 1921
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Title Travelling Performers - Tabi Geinin very rare : before Kanto Earthquake Artist Taiken Furuya 1897 - ? Signature Taiken. Dated 1921. Publisher Watanabe. Medium/Technique Woodblock print. Format Oban yoko-e Width Item 14.6 inches = 37.0 cm Height Item 10.4 inches = 26.5 cm Description "Tabi Geinin" (Travelling Performers). A shamisen player, drummer and a girl are heading to their home in the evening. A large full moon shines in the air casting faint shadows of them on the street. Watanabe's gallery shop in Tokyo was destroyed by the Kanto Earthquake in 1923. Many of the original woodblocks and prints were destroied and could never been re-produced again.