Elizabeth Keith was a British artist who became a print designer, working closely with publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. When she held an exhibition of her Korean watercolours in Tokyo in 1919, Watanabe suggested to turn the painting of the East Gate in Seoul by moonlight into a colour print, resulting in the first print of the present lot and marking the beginning of Keith's career as a print artist. For a discussion on her work see The New Wave, Twentieth-Century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, London/Leiden, 1993, p.47-48 and p.214-216.