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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4432887, member: 8267&quot;]The artist was Shotei Hokuju.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will quote myself from a recent thread on another Japanese woodblock print:</p><p>&quot;Dating such prints is difficult. There may have been many reprint editions, using the original blocks, reworked blocks, or copy blocks, as well as more modern reproductions. If you can recognize traditional Japanese paper, that would be a start.&quot;</p><p>(<a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hiroshiga-print.69534/#post-4425790" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hiroshiga-print.69534/#post-4425790">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/hiroshiga-print.69534/#post-4425790</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Examine it with a magnifier, to make sure there are none of the characteristics of modern halftone reproduction (variations of dot matrix). Other types of modern printing can be more difficult to distinguish.</p><p><br /></p><p>There do not seem to be a lot of examples of this image on ukiyo-e.org for comparison. <a href="https://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc223893" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc223893" rel="nofollow">https://ukiyo-e.org/image/mfa/sc223893</a></p><p>But an original Japanese woodblock print (of any iteration) should be in one of the standard sizes, which are explained here:</p><p><a href="https://www.roningallery.com/blog/decoding-ukiyo-e-standard-sizes-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.roningallery.com/blog/decoding-ukiyo-e-standard-sizes-2" rel="nofollow">https://www.roningallery.com/blog/decoding-ukiyo-e-standard-sizes-2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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