4072303 Japan: \'"Kaika Kyouku Mari Uta" (Teaching Songs with Musical Instruments)\', a Meiji Period woodblock print by Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912), 5 November 1883 by Chikanobu, Toyohara (1838-1912); (add.info.: Toyohara Chikanobu, better known to his contemporaries as Y?sh贖 Chikanobu, was a prolific woodblock artist of Japan\'s Meiji period. His works capture the transition from the age of the samurai to Meiji modernity. In 1875 (Meiji 8), he decided to try to make a living as an artist. He travelled to Tokyo. He found work as an artist for the Kaishin Shimbun. In addition, he produced "nishiki-e" artworks. In his younger days, he had studied the Kan? school of painting; but his interest was drawn to "ukiyo-e". Like many "ukiyo-e" artists, Chikanobu turned his attention towards a great variety of subjects. His work ranged from Japanese mythology to depictions of the battlefields of his lifetime to women\'s fashions. As well as a number of the other artists of this period, he too portrayed kabuki actors in character, and is well-known for his impressions of the "mie" (formal pose) of kabuki productions. Chikanobu was known as a master of "bijinga", images of beautiful women, and for illustrating changes in women\'s fashion, including both traditional and Western clothing. His work illustrated the changes in coiffures and make-up across time. For example, in Chikanobu\'s images in Mirror of Ages (1897), the hair styles of the Tenmei era, 1781-1789 are distinguished from those of the Keio era, 1865-1867.); Pictures from History.