Tsuchiya Koitsu, 'Shinobazu Pond at Ueno in Tokyo'
Sheet size 43.5 x 28.3 cm.
Not framed. Tape residue to the right margin. Small holes to the left margin.
Copmare to lot 108 Sotheby's 'Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II'
10 May 2023.
Tsuchiya Kōitsu 土屋光逸 was active within the Shin-hanga movement. He trained under the ukiyo-e master Kobayashi Kiyochika for nearly twenty years, learning the dramatic variations of light for which he later became known. His early subjects primarily depicted scenes from the First Sino-Japanese War, while his later works mainly consist of poetic landscapes. Kōitsu worked with the famous art publisher Shōzaburō Watanabe from 1931.
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