Ito Shinsui

1898-1972

Eight Views of Omi: Evening Glow at Yabase
(Omi hakkei no uchi: Omi hakkei no uchi: Yabase)

titled, dated and signed at lower right, Omi hakkei no uchi Yabase Taisho rokunen shichigatsu Shinsui (Eight Views of Omi, Yabase, Taisho 6 [1917], 7th month, Shinsui), with publisher's limited edition seal on verso, Ito Shinsui ga, Omi hakkeiYabase, shusatsu nihyaku mai kagiri no uchi dai - ban (picture by Ito Shinsui, Eight Views of Omi, limited edition of 200, not numbered), and with large oval Kintei (with compliments) seal, ca. July 1917

aiban yoko-e 8 1/2 by 12 1/2 in., 21.6 by 31.9 cm

References:
Kato, Junzo, comp., Kindai Nihon hanga taikei, 1975-76, Vol. 1, pl. 172
Tadasu Watanabe, Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, 1992, p. 34, pl. 13
Nihon no hanga II (1911-1920), Chiba City Museum of Art, 2000, p. 112, pl. 223-3
Koyama Shuko, Beautiful Shin Hanga- Revitalization of Ukiyo-e, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2009, p. 67, no. 2-32
Amy Reigle Newland, ed., Printed to Perfection: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 2004, p. 107, pl. 95
Andreas Marks, Seven Masters: 20th Century Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2015, p. 107, no. 50

price: $6,800