Tsuchiya Koitsu woodblock print. Features nightingale in a plum tree. There is a version of this where the sky is blue, like it’s evening. This one has a gold sky. The size of the print itself is 3.75″ wide by 5 3/4″ tall. The back of the frame has been sealed shut with tape. If […]
Formal Name: Rakuzan kacho-gafu. Contents: First edition made by Rakuzan. Year of publication: 1929. 46×60cm(18×23.6 inch). Rakuzan was born in Kyoto. When he was young, he studied under Takeuchi Seiho, a pioneer of modern Japanese painting and a representative painter of Kyoto painting. The woodblock prints of Rakuzan have been reprinted using the same woodblock […]
Tsuchiya Koitsu was born under the name of “Koichi” in Hammamatsu in the Japanese countryside. He went to Tokyo. At the age 15 and had apprentice with Matsuzaki, a engraver who worked for Kobayashi Kiyochika. , an artist famous for his genre scenes and military prints. But instead of staying with the engraver, Koitsu joined […]