ISHII HAKUTEI (1882-1958)

YANAGIBASHI AKASAKA SHINBASHI NIHONBASHI SHIBAURA ASAKUSA MUKOJIMA YOSHIMACHI YOSHIMACHI FROM THE SERIES TOKYO JUNIKEI (TWELVE VIEWS OF TOKYO)

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ISHII HAKUTEI (1882-1958)
Yanagibashi
Akasaka
Shinbashi
Nihonbashi
Shibaura
Asakusa
Mukojima
Yoshimachi
Yoshimachi
from the series Tokyo junikei (Twelve views of Tokyo)
Woodcut, n.d. [1910-16], signed in Japanese Hakutei, Hakutei e, Hakutei hitsu, Hakutei ga or Hakutei Mitsuyoshi ga, sealed Bonkotsu to (Bonkotsu, carver), titled as above, with colophon printed with names of publisher, Nakajima Jutaro, publishing house, Seikado, and carver, Igami Bonkotsu, Yanagibashi with slight stains to the lower corners, Akasaka with some fold marks and worn corners, Shibaura soiled along edges, Asakusa slightly soiled in places, Mukojima slightly stained on lower edge, one Yoshimachi slightly stained above woman's head
15 x 10in. (38.1 x 25.3cm.) each approx. (9)

Lot Essay

For other impressions of Yanagibashi see Helen Merritt, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, The Early Years (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990), p. 122; Donald Jenkins, Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century (Portland, Ore.: Portland Art Museum, 1983), no. 36, p. 61. For another impression of Akasaka see Taishoki no hanga ten (Exhibition of Taisho-period prints) (Tokyo: Itabashi Museum, 1988), no. 17, p. 2.

This series is illustrated in Takahashi Seiichiro et al., Kindai Nihon hanga taikei (Compendium of modern Japanese prints) (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1975) vol. 1, pls. 16-24.