Help with Asian marks on print please!

[Charmin]

I think this is an Asian woodblock print(?).....The artist has signed it in pencil in the lower right hand corner. His name is "Keisai" and it is called "A Landscape". Can anyone tell me what the Asian markings say? When I googled the name Keisai, I found lots of info on an artist named "Keisai Eisen".......Here is some of what Wikipedia said about him:
Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790 – 1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijinga (pictures of beautiful women). His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large head pictures"), are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818–1830). He was also known as Ikeda Eisen, and wrote under the name of Ippitsuan.

Could this be the same artist who did my print?
Thanks for looking and any help!
sandcreek~

 

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[ivan salis]

VERY POSSIBLE.

 

[daroofa]

Here is the exact same print, but it is titled "A landscaper", with an "R". Otherwise the same in every other way.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/146062-5364/Landscaper-Woodcut-Woodblock-Print-Keisai

 

[AU Seeker]

Here is the exact same print, but it is titled "A landscaper", with an "R". Otherwise the same in every other way.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/146062-5364/Landscaper-Woodcut-Woodblock-Print-Keisai

It looks to be the very same artist and print to me, I looked at the "name" of the print and "artist's" signature, and it looks to be the same with very little difference, no more difference than when you would sign your own name, the way the artist or whomever signed the prints makes the "p" and "e" in the word "landscape" on the linked print, the "e" didn't loop and it look like it could be an "r", the loop on the "p" is separated on both prints from the vertical portion of the "p" and the loop looks like an "e", thus the misreading the title by the seller of the linked print, it look like your print is worth $750 if the link print has sold or sells for that price, if the seller of the link print has the correct artist connected to his print!!!

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[Charmin]

Thanks so much, guys!!! I'll mark this as solved!
sandcreek

 

[AU Seeker]

I'm still not sure this print is by this artist, here is a link that has that has 3 different versions of his signature in Japanese, I compared them to the signature on the 2 prints and I don't see where they are the same, it looks like more research has to be done on your print before you will know for sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisai_Eisen

Here is a link to a print that has his signature that matches the signature in the above link.

http://www.japaneseprints-london.com/images/Website-update-May-2010-002.jpg

I'm still researching!!


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[AU Seeker]

Another link to reproductions of his work and the signatures match the signatures I linked above.

You can click on the prints and then click again to enlarge them.

http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a49338/keisai-eisen-posters.htm

Still looking!

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[Charmin]

I haven't taken this print out of the frame because its still sealed with the brown paper from the art store. Here's a pic of the back--should I take it out and see if there are any other marks on the back of the print?

 

[AU Seeker]

I wouldn't take it out of the frame just yet, maybe you can take it to a museum to try to get it authenticated, I have found a lot of prints of this artist searching the net but yours and the other linked print posted by daroofa are the only ones I can find like yours, I was hoping to find another but no luck yet, I will be searching some more later, it dinner time!!


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[Charmin]

I wouldn't take it out of the frame just yet, maybe you can take it to a museum to try to get it authenticated, I have found a lot of prints of this artist searching the net but yours and the other linked print posted by daroofa are the only ones I can find like yours, I was hoping to find another but no luck yet, I will be searching some more later, it dinner time!!


Skip

Thanks Skip and daroofa!