Artist
Gigadō Ashiyuki
Japanese artist and, b. 1750
Gigadō Ashiyuki is a Japanese artist and Romanticism artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.
二代目嵐璃寛宮本武蔵|Arashi Rikan II as Miyamoto Musashi
戯画堂芦幸画 二代目嵐橘三郎 「ひらかな盛衰記」|Kabuki Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō II as Kajiwara Heiji, in the play Hiragana seisuiki (Records of the Battles between the Minamoto and Taira Clans in the Japanese Syllabary)
Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke
Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Ude no Jirobei
Gigadō Ashiyuki was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka, who was active from about 1813 to 1833. He was a pupil of Asayama Ashikuni, and was also a haiku poet. Ashiyuki is best known for his ōban sized, prints of kabuki actors, although he also illustrated books, and designed surimono.
Works by Gigadō Ashiyuki
- 二代目嵐璃寛宮本武蔵|Arashi Rikan II as Miyamoto Musashi
- 戯画堂芦幸画 二代目嵐橘三郎 「ひらかな盛衰記」|Kabuki Actor Arashi Kitsusaburō II as Kajiwara Heiji, in the play Hiragana seisuiki (Records of the Battles between the Minamoto and Taira Clans in the Japanese Syllabary)
- Arashi Rikan II as Kizu Kansuke
- Ichikawa Ebijuro II as Ude no Jirobei
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