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Ito Shinsui, Mount Hira
Ito Shinsui, 1898-1972
Eight Views of Omi: Mount Hira
(Omi hakkei no uchi: Hira)
titled, dated and signed at lower right, Omi hakkei no uchi Hira Taisho rokunen gogatsu Shinsui (Eight Views of Omi, Hira, Taisho 6 [1917], 5th month, Shinsui), with limited edition publisher's seal hand-numbered on verso, Ito Shinsui ga, Omi hakkei Hira, surizuri nihyaku mai kagiri no uchi dai nana ban (picture by Ito Shinsui, Eight Views of Omi, Hira, limited edition of 200, number 7), and two seals, hanmoto Watanabe
aiban yoko-e 8 5/8 by 12 5/8 in., 21.8 by 32 cm
References:
Kato, Junzo, comp., Kindai Nihon hanga taikei, 1975-76, Vol. 1, pl. 169
Tadasu Watanabe, Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, 1992, p. 33, pl. 12
Reigle Stephens, Amy, gen. ed., The new wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 1993, p. 183, no. 234
Nihon no hanga II 1911-1920), Chiba City Museum of Art, 2000, p. 113, pl. 223-2
$8,200