Tsuchiya Koitsu, "Mountain Temple" (Futara-san, Nikko), 1950-60-tal.
Woodblock print. Image area 39.6 x 25.8 cm. Sheet size 43 x 29.3 cm. Frame 51 x 37 cm.
Publisher Eiichi Doi, seal to the left margin indicates that it was printed post-war during the 1950's/60's by Eiichi Doi.
Very good condition. Frame tape to the margins verso.
Purchased in the 1950s in Japan.
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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