Marumage (Reflection in a Mirror) from the series Gendai Bijin Fuzoku Gotai (Five Figures of Modern Beauties) by Shimura Tatsumi. Original woodblock print circa 1953. Pristine condition, color and impression. Large oban size measures 18.2 x 11.1 inches. Red Tatsumi seal and characters in lower right of image. Nakagawa carver’s seal and Onodera printer’s seal […]
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK Utagawa Hiroshige “Izumi Province Takashi Beach” Printed in 1853. He is particularly known for his scenes featuring snow and rain, which feauture in many of his best and most famous images, and which has led to his becoming know as “the artist of rain, snow and mist”. He was born (with the name […]
Description: Hiroshi, Yoshida (Japanese 1876 – 1950)’Sekichozan – Shizhongshan (Jizuri)’ 1940. Hirosakijo/Hirosaki Castle, from the series Sakura hachidai (Eight views of cherry blossoms), 1925. Framed and matted in a wood frame and mat board. Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga […]