Catalog (528)

Ohara Koson
Snow-capped Mount Fuji
Size: O-tanzaku. Approximately 14.5 x 7.5 inches.
Date: ca. 1900s-1923.
Bears Koson seal.
Publisher: Daikokuya (6)
Reference: K44.8 and plate 103 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Lower right corner reinforced. Tone line at bottom edge. Some fading.
- A well-known and rarely seen Koson design.

Ohara Koson (Shoson)
Cranes on Seashore
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Date: 1933.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Watanabe sausage seal (C seal) at right margin, indicating a first edition printed between 1929-1942.
Shoson signature and seal.
Made in Japan stamped on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Reference: S4.1 in Crows, Cranes and Camellias: The Natural World of Ohara Koson (Reigle Newland).
Condition: Excellent. Never di...

Ota Masamitsu (Ota Gako) (1892-1975)
Nakamura Tokizo III as Shizuka Gozen
No. 7 from the shin hanga series: Leading Figures of the Modern Stage in Their Most Famous Roles (Gendai Butai Geika).
Date: 1955.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.75 x 10.75 inches.
Publisher: Banchoro. Seal at bottom margin.
Printer: Miyake Koshodo. Seal at bottom margin.
Condition: Excellent.

Paul Binnie
Snow at Asakusa (Shitamachi Snow, Moon, and Flower) Date: 1998
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.5 x 11.5 inches.
Edition no.: 36/100
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Circle in lower foreground is fiber within the paper.

Paul Jacoulet
Cactus, Mers du Sud (Cactus, South Seas)
Date: November 20, 1941.
Edition: 99/350. Fewer than 250 impressions made.
Size: 19 x 14 inches.
Sparrow seal. Carver: Maeda. Printer: Uchikawa
Reference: No. 79 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles
Condition: Excellent.
Note: Miles writes, "one of only three prints that do not contain any human figures....The pale blue background is very fugitive and is rarely found unfaded." That pale bl...

Paul Jacoulet
Chagrin d'Amour: Kusai (Sorrows of Love, Kusaie, East Carolines)
Date: 1940.
Print size: Approximately 6.25 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Self-published, from a series of surimono.
Reference: No. 70, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet (Miles).
Print is tipped along its top edge at the inside of an original Christmas card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Margin has very faint matte line. Card has tape marks. Slight wave at top of paper.

Paul Jacoulet
Hokkan-zan, Seoul, Coree (Hokkan Mountains, Seoul, Korea)
Date: December 6, 1937.
Size: Approximately 18.25 x 14 inches.
Jacoulet signature and watermark with tea jar seal.
Edition: 144/350.
Carver: Maeda. Printer: Honda.
Reference: Print #45 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles
Condition: Excellent color and condition. The back margin edges are toned. The back top margin has three pieces of archival tape.

Paul Jacoulet
Les Perles, Mandchoukuo
Size: Dai-oban.
Date: December 28, 1950.
Edition: 297/350.
Carver: Maeda, Printer: Ogawa.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good color and condition. Toning at back.
"More than 300 individual impressions of nearly 60 blocks were needed to create this ultimate technical tour de force of twentieth century art." - Richard Miles, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet.

Paul Jacoulet
Souvenirs d'Autrefois: Japon (Memories of the Past, Japan)
Date: 1941.
Print size: Approximately 6.25 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Self-published, from a series of surimono.
Reference: No. 78, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet (Miles).
Print is tipped along its top edge at the inside of an original Christmas card.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Lower margin has very faint matte line. Card has tape marks.

Paul Jacoulet
Le Tresor, Coree (The Treasure, Korea)
Date: May 21, 1940.
Size: Approximately 18.25 x 14 inches.
Jacoulet signature and watermark with butterfly seal.
Edition: 155/250.
Carver: Maeda. Printer: Honda.
Reference: Print #66 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles
Condition: Excellent.
"This classic scene of mother and child is one of Jacoulet's best received prints." - Miles

Paul Jacoulet
Une Belle De Palaos (A Beauty of Palao)
Date: November 4, 1935.
Edition: No. 291/350. Fewer than 275 impressions made.
Size: 18.5 x 14 inches.
Mandarin duck seal. Carver: Maeda. Printer: Honda.
Reference: No. 30 in The Prints of Paul Jacoulet by Richard Miles.
Condition: Excellent.
Note: Miles writes, "This was conceived and printed as a pair with No. 31." Part of the "Flowers" series.
This print is from a recently acquired group havi...

Paul Jacoulet
Tatooed Woman of Falalap, West Carolines
(Femme Tatouée de Falalap Ouest Carolines)
Date: July 5, 1935.
First edition: 91/150 numbered in kanji. Fewer than 100 impressions produced.
This edition was issued without a title. The title label at the lower right was added by the original collector.
Size: Approximately 19.50 x 13.75 inches.
Jacoulet signature and watermark with mandarin duck seal.
Seal of carver Yamagishi.
Reference: "This print...

Paul Jacoulet
Une Averse A Metalanim Ponape, Est Carolines (Downpour at Metalanim Ponape, East Carolines)
Date: October 1, 1935. First edition. This edition was issued without a title. The title label at the lower right was added by the original collector.
Size: Approximately 18.75 x 13.75 inches.
Jacoulet signature and watermark with mandarin duck seal.
Edition: 053/150 numbered in kanji. (The edition of 150 is the earliest. Fewer than 75 impressions produced.)
Ref...

Paul Jacoulet
Le Nid, Coree (The Nest, Korea)
Date: 1941.
Print size: Approximately 6.25 x 4.25 inches.
Publisher: Self-published, from a series of surimono.
Reference: No. 80, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet (Miles).
Print is tipped along its top edge to original blank card.
Jacoulet liberally employed mica in creating the silver background of this charming subject.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Card is slightly creased.

Paul Jacoulet
L'Attente, Celebes Menado
Size: Dai-oban.
Date: September 15, 1947.
Edition: 175/350.
Carver: Maeda, Printer: Fujii.
Condition: Excellent.
"The pink background is sprinkled with bits of silver leaf… The curl of smoke from the lady's cigarette is gauffrage." - Richard Miles, The Prints of Paul Jacoulet.

Paul Jacoulet
Jeune Fille de Saipan Et Fleurs D'Hibiscus. Marianes" (Young Girl of Saipan and Hibiscus Flowers. Marianas)
Date: June 30, 1934. First edition. This edition was issued without a title. The title label at the lower right was added by the original collector.
Size: Approximately 18.5 x 13.75 inches.
Jacoulet signature and watermark with fan seal.
Edition: 067/150. (The edition of 150 is the earliest.)
Reference: Print #1 and frontispiece of The Prints of ...

Peerless Mount Fuji
Unsigned. Artist not identified.
Date: 1934.
Size: Oban. Approximately 13.75 x 10 inches.
Origin: Issued as a folded insert to an N.Y.K. Line publication called, "Glimpses of the East". The folds are vertical.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: A faint foxing spot at the upper left.
The composition of this print is reminiscent of the Fuji views of Tsuchiya Koitsu.

Toshi Yoshida (1911~1995)
Depicting: Snow scene
A woodblock print tipped at the top to a Japanese Christmas card from the early 1950s. Please photo of the inside of the card.
Signed "T. Yoshida"
Condition: Excellent.

Kasamatsu Shiro (1898-1991)
Shower of Cherry Blossoms at Kanbayashi Hotspring, Shinshu
Date: 1939.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.25 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
First edition. Watanabe sausage seal (in use 1929-42).
Signed and sealed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Never displayed.

Shoda Koho
Bridge in Rainy Season
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.0 inches.
Date: 1930s.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Artist's signature and seal at lower left.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku. Seal at right margin and stamp on verso.
Condition: Excellent. Back has tape residue in two spots.

Shoda Koho
Three Crows on a Branch and Moon
Date: 1910-20s.
Publisher: Hasegawa/Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Size: 8.5 x 3.75 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent with point-sized spot at lower left.

Shoda Koho
Futamigaura - Wedded Rocks
From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 11.5 x 8.5 inches.
Date: 1910s-20s. This edition 1938-60s.
Publisher: Hasegawa/Nishinomiya Yosaku. Seal at left margin.
Sealed by artist at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Shoda Koho
Lake Biwa
Hasegawa Night Scenes series, no. 1247.
Date: 1910s-1938.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.125 x 7.5 inches
Publisher: Hasegawa Takejiro/Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Shoda Koho
Shrine Gate at Miyajima
From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series (No. 1251).
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.125 x 7.5 inches.
Date: 1910s - 1938.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Artist's seal at lower right.
Publisher: Hasegawa Takejiro/Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Condition: Slight toning.

Shoda Koho
Moonlit Sea
From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 11 x 8 inches.
Artist's seal lower left.
Date: 1930s. Printed 1938-1960.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.

Shoda Koho
Ohashi Bridge at Atako.
From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series (No. 1253).
Size: Chuban. Approximately 9.75 x 7.25 inches.
Date: 1910-38.
Publisher: Hasegawa/Nishinomiya
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Sealed by the artist. "Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Condition: Slight bend at upper right corner.

Shoda Koho
Ueno Park
From the Hasegawa Night Scenes series.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10.75 x 8.0 inches.
Date: 1930s. Printed 1938-1960.
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yosaku. #1248 in Hasegawa catalog.
Sealed by the artist at lower left.
Condition: Excellent.

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Hunting Fireflies in Cool Breeze
Date: Pre-1923.
Size: Oban. 14.25 x 9.75 inches.
Shotei seal at left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: O-41 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Upper left corner rebuilt by conservator. Scuff in sky near tree. Wormholes (see illuminated last photo).
- The blocks for this rare print depicting a pond in Ota-ku were destroyed in the Great Kanto ...

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Snow in Uchikawa
Date: Pre-1916.
Size: Mitsugiriban. 14.625 x 6.375 inches.
Shotei seal at right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (#682). S-81 in Shotei catalog.
Reference: Shotei cat. M-116. Ota #60. Watanabe #682. Ota-ku Folk Museum notes date this print 1907-1915.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Fading and toning. Spotting in snow. Chip at lower right edge and corner. Crease upper left.
Note: Sno...

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)(1871-1945)
Packhorse in Snow
Print size: Approximately 3.75 x 2.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Shotei seal at lower left.
Date: Pre-1923 earthquake. Original blocks destroyed.
Reference: Shotei catalog S-129.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge to original card.
Condition: Excellent.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)(1871-1945)
Title: Totsuka
Print size: Approximately 6.825 x 4.825 inches (17.4 x 11.8 cm). Dimensions without borders: 16.2 x 10.9 cm.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Shotei seal at upper right.
Date: Prior to the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, in which the original blocks were destroyed. This is the only known example.
Reference: Authenticity confirmed and slated to be added to the Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Shotei catalog title: Plum Tree Takes a Boat Ride
Japanese title: Sakigake Bune
Date: Pre-1923.
Size: Approximately 25.9 x 12.8 cm. 10.25 x 5 inches.
Shotei seal at upper right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: S-135 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Two pieces of white tape at top back margin.
- The blocks for this print were destroyed in the Great Kanto E...

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Riverside at Furukawa
Series: Famous Views of the Eastern Capital
Date: Pre-1923.
Size: 10 x 5 inches.
Shotei seal at lower right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: S-81 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Two small pieces of tape at back margin. Left margin has spot.
- The blocks for this rare print were destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Spring at Sensoji
Date: Pre-1916. Pre-earthquake.
Numbered edition: Numbered "48" inside fan seal at lower left corner. Part of the kanji character "8" is off the edge.
Size: 19.625 x 8.5 inches.
Shotei signature and seal at left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: O-36 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Laid down to board. Toning.
- The blocks for this rare, numbered pr...

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)(1871-1945)
Title: Autumn Moon at Tama River
Size: Approximately 7 x 4.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Sealed "Shotei" at left.
Date: Pre-1936.
Reference: Shotei catalog #S-2.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Top margin has small tear impinging image by 2mm.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Okabe
Date: Pre-1936 (ca. 1927).
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 15.0 x 6.75 inches.
Artist's seal lower left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: M-39 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Onward to the Sea-gall
Date: 1939-40
Publisher: Shobido Tanaka
Shotei.com no. ST-40.
Globe's Catalog No: C-562
Size: 6.0 x 4.0 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Spring Snow
Size: Approximately 15.0 x 6.75 inches.
Date: pre-1936.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. No. 244 in 1936 Watanabe catalog. M-35 in Shotei catalog.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso.
Condition: A few faint spots on the back and very slight toning.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
"Tama" (aka. White Cat on Black Background)
Date: 1924. This edition printed between 1946-1957.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. Bears the red 6 mm seal at lower left.
Size: Oban. Approximately 13.25 x 9.5 inches.
Condition: Trimmed margins. Light scuffing.
The cat is beautifully embossed as shown in photo 2.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)(1871-1945)
Country House After Snow
Print size: Approximately 4.0 x 2.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Shotei's Rakutei seal at lower left.
Date: Pre-1936.
Reference: Shotei catalog #S-47.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print tipped along its top edge to a signed holiday card.
Condition: Excellent.

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Arai Inn (Omori Arai Inn)
Series: Eight Views South of the Capital
Date: 1921.
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.25 x 10.75 inches.
Shotei seal at upper right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: O-20 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Center crease. Soiling in margins. Toned paper. Very good color.
- The blocks for this print were destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 192...

Shotei Takahashi (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
Bridge in the Snow
Date: Almost certainly pre-earthquake 1910s.
Size: Oban. 14.125 x 9.625 inches.
Shotei seal at lower right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: O-30 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Top back margin has paper residue. Creasing at upper left and lower left corners. Fading.
- This print features applied gofun snow. The rarity of this print suggests that it wa...

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Cormorant Island, Lake Kawaguchi (Kawaguchiko Unoshima)
Size: Oban. Approximately 15.5 x 10.25 inches.
Date: ca 1929.
Hiroaki signature and Shotei seal at lower left.
Publisher: Fusui Gabo. Seal at lower right margin.
Reference: Shotei catalog #O-80.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Toning and light foxing. The lighter spots near upper corners appear to be old repairs of thinned paper.
This very rare design was o...

Takahashi Shotei
Red temple in rain; priest over the steps
Date: ca. 1920s-30s.
Size: 5.75 x 3.5 inches
Reference: S-7 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.
Compare with our Shotei127.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Moon from a Harbor (Minato no tsuki)
Date: pre-1916.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 15 x 6.75 inches.
Shotei double red square seal and title at upper left.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: M-110 in Shotei catalog.
Note: Blocks destroyed in 1923 earthquake.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: The faint mark at the far right corresponds to a mark on the back of the print.

Takahashi Shotei
Moon Under a Bridge at Hakozaki
Size: Approximately 7.5 x 5.25 inches.
Shotei's Rakutei seal at left.
Date: pre-1936.
Reference: S-49 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Wear on bridge wall. Back has a a few foxing spots and pencil note.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Mt. Fuji from Kurasawa
Size: Approximately 10.25 x 7.25 inches.
Date: pre-1927.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. No. 184 in 1936 Bears the Shotei seal.
Watanabe catalog. C-12 in Shotei catalog.
Condition: Excellent. Paper at top back margin.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Night Shower at Izumi Bridge
Date: Pre-1932.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 15.0 x 6.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: M-16 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: A thin paper spot at bridge post as shown. On the back, there are two thinner portions where tape had been. Tiny 1 cm tear extending from right center margin. Faint crease visible only at back.
- This is Shotei's beauti...

Takahashi Shotei
Red temple in rain; priest over the steps
Date: ca. 1920s-30s.
Size: Approximately 6 x 4 inches.
Woodblock print is attached along its top edge to 7.75 x 5.25 inch original card.
Shotei artist's seal at lower left.
"Made in Japan" stamped on verso of print.
Reference: S-7 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Priest in Snow on a Mountain Path
Date: Pre-1936.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 15.0 x 6.75 inches.
Beautifully professionally framed with UV protective glass. Framed size: 22 x 13.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Title and Shotei seal lower left.
Reference: M-60 in Shotei catalog.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Rain at Igusa
Date: Pre-1923 earthquake. Muted color version with full title.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 15.25 x 6.5 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: M-76 in Shotei catalog.
Provenance: From the collection of Canadian missionary Sybil Courtice, who was in Japan from the early 20th century up until WWII.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Note: Blocks destroyed in 1923 earthquake.
Condition: Excell...

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
Returning Home, Evening
Date: Pre-1936 (1920s or 1930s)
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo. No. 508 in 1936 Watanabe catalogue.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
"Made in Japan" on verso.
Size: Chuban. Approximately 10 x 7 inches.
Provenance: The Robert O. Muller estate.
Condition: Excellent. Uncirculated.

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Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Singers of Popular Songs
Date: pre-1936.
Size: Koban. Approximately 7.5 x 5.0 inches.
Shotei seal at right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: S-10 in Shotei catalog. Watanabe catalog No. 179
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Takahashi Shotei (1871-1945)
Snow at Asakusa Kannon-do
Date: Pre-1936.
Size: Mitsugiri-ban. Approximately 15.0 x 6.75 inches.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: M-22 in Shotei catalog.
Provenance: From the collection of Canadian missionary Sybil Courtice, who was in Japan from the early 20th century up until WWII.
Condition: Excellent.

Takahashi Shotei
Drawing up seawater under moonlight.
The figures are engaged in saltmaking, likely at Suma Beach
Date: pre-1936.
Size: Approximately 7.5 x 5.25 inches.
Shotei's Rakutei seal at left.
Reference: S-50 in Shotei catalog.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Pencil notes on back.

Takahashi Shotei (Hiroaki)
The Sumida Bank in the Night (aka. Sumida Dike in the Night; Boat by the snow-covered bank of the Sumida River)
Size: Approximately 14.75 x 5.75 inches.
Date: 1907. Pre-earthquake.
Shotei seal at right.
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo.
Reference: The first illustration in The Collected Print Works of Shotei Takahashi, a Modern Ukiyo-e Painter, p. 10.
Condition: Excellent. The slightest creasing at left.
Considered to be both Shotei...

Takeji Asano
Moon light in Wakanoura, Wakayama
Date: 1952. This edition is later.
Size: Oban. Approximately 16.0 x 10.75 inches.
Publisher: Unsodo.
Condition: Excellent. No flaws.

Artist: This signature has been read "Choka" or "Akiyo". These prints are sometimes attributed to Nishimura Hodo.
Boat On a River at Night
Publisher: Takemura Hideo. Red Takemura seal at lower left
Size: 10.0 x 7.25 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Scuff at upper right. Small smudge on mountain.
- A rare print similar to Shoda Koho's Hasegawa night scene, "Country Scene with Moon".

Torii Kotondo
Combing Hair (Kamisuki). From the Twelve Aspects of Women Series.
Dated: 1929 (numbered first edition)
Edition: 119 of 300 (Numbered by hand on verso as part of embossed stamp.
Paper size: 18.25 x 11.75 inches.
Publisher: Kawaguchi (sealed at right margin).
Carver: Ito. Printer: Komatsu. Seals at left margin.
Artist's signature and seal.
Embossed title at bottom margin.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Tone line near ima...

Torii Kotondo
Combing Hair. From the Twelve Aspects of Women Series.
Date: 1933 (ca. 1980s edition)
Paper size: Large at 19 x 13 inches.
Publisher: Ishukankokai ("moneybag" seal).
Carver: Ito. Printer: Kajikawa.
Artist's signature and seal. Publisher's watermark below stamps.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
The color of the margin is uniformly bright on all sides. Please see adjusted lighting in subsequent photos.
Condition: Faint small dot on nose....