Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)

Shinobazu no ike (Shinobazu Pond)

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Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)
Shinobazu no ike (Shinobazu Pond)
Copperplate engraving with applied color, signed indistinctly Nihon kokusei Shiba Kokan (carved in Japan, Shiba Kokan) and cyclically dated kinoe tatsu shigatsu horu (Tenmei fourth month [1784]--paper toned, soiled, restorations, trimmed into signature left, backed
16.8 x 38cm.

Lot Essay

The print is a reverse image intended to be seen by means of a mirrored viewing implement. For another example, see Masanobu Hosono, translated and adapted by Lloyd R. Craighill, Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha, Ltd. and Shibundo, 1978), pl. 52, p. 76.

For an oil painting by Kokan, see lot 123.

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