Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II
Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II
Lot Closed
May 10, 02:55 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 1,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Bannai Kokan (1900-1963)
Nihonbashi in Snow (Yuki no Nihonbashi)
Showa period, 20th century
woodblock print, from the series Modern Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Gendai Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi), signed Kokan, publisher's mark (Hotei 'D', circa 1929-42) to lower right margin Hanken shoyu Watanabe Shozaburo [copyright reserved, Watanabe Shozaburo], circa 1930
Horizontal oban: 26.3 x 38.6 cm., 10⅜ x 15¼ in.
For another impression of the same print, see Brown & Goodhall, Shin Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan, (Los Angeles, 1996), p. 82, fig. 110.