Tsuchiya Koitsu, after, 'Evening at Ushigome'.
Woodblock print. The motif created in 1939. Alt. title 'Kagurazaka at Ushigome'. Sheet size 43 x 28.5 cm.
Not framed.
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.
Read more