Ginko Adachi, The Opening of the Temporary Diet, Woodcut, 1890s

Picture of the opening of the temporary Diet building is an original artwork realized in the 1890s by Ginko Adachi (born 1853; active c. 1870 – 1908). Sheet dimensions: 22 x 48 cm. Woodblock print Tryptich. Original Title "Kokkai kari gijido shinkei" (Picture of the opening of the temporary Diet building). Parade on a bright spring day. The carriage of the emperor and his guard approaches the new building. Signed: Ginko utsusu. Publisher: Fukuda Kumajiro. Good lifetime impression, backed, rubbed, painting in black under the wheels of the carriage, lower margin cut, discoloration (aniline red), slightly soiled, one corner torn off, more painting on left sheet. Adachi Ginko (born 1853; active c. 1870 – 1908) was a Japanese artist best known for his prints in the ukiyo-e style as a member of the Utagawa school. He worked in a variety of genres, including portraits of beauties and actors, landscapes, book illustrations, and satirical works, and produced a large number of triptychs of contemporary events. His most successful work was his Pictorial Outline of Japanese History series of triptychs in the late 1880s. He was jailed and fined in 1889 for caricaturing the Meiji Emperor.