Is this chinese or japanese writing?

[kunstefan]

Hey there! Again I will need your help. Its another old picture and I am not able to read the writings there.

I would like to know if its chinese or japanese and where the motif is. And I would need the artists name.

Thank you once more for your help!!!

 

[NinjaTurtle]

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Kunstefan,

 

It is Japanese writing. The first picture is a picture of Japanese shinto priests. The second picture contains the name Chiyoda (千代田) in large Chinese characters, which is the name of a neighborhood in Tokyo.

 

[Publius]

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2541717

 

千代田之御表 is a series of 10 ukiyoe paintings by the woodblock artist 楊洲周延, published in 1897, Tokyo by 福田初次郎.

 

Yours seems to be a reproduction of the first part of the book, subtitled 芝増上寺初御成ノ図.