Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II

Landscape to City: 20th Century Japanese Prints Part II

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Bannai Kokan (1900-1963) | Nihonbashi in Snow (Yuki no Nihonbashi) | Showa period, 20th century

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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.