Tokuriki Tomikichiro Japanese Woodblock Print Title Rain at Kiraba No. 3

Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, has been depicted in ukiyoe prints (Japanese Woodblock Prints), including Hiroshige Utagawa’s “Fuji Sanjurokkei” (“Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”). Tokuriki was born into a family that worked at the Nishi Honganji Temple in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, and was mainly engaged in painting. However, influenced by the prints of Ei Kawanishi, […]