Lot Essay
This print is from a portfolio of ten woodcuts and two leaflets (a list of artists and titles in English and a page of remarks on the prints by the artists in Japanese) printed in 1946 by Fugaku Shuppansha. The portfolio was a collaborative work by Onchi, Sekino Jun'ichiro, Saito Kiyoshi, Kawanishi Hide and Maekawa Sempan, all members of the Japan Print Society, who cut the woodblocks themselves and printed them with the help of the Takamizawa Woodblock Company.
For other impressions see Shibuya Shoto Museum, ed., Tokubetsuten: Onchi Koshiro (Special exhibition: Onchi Koshiro) (Tokyo: Shibuya Shoto Museum, 1982), no. 54; Onchi Koshiro hangashu/Prints of Onchi Koshiro (Tokyo: Keishosha, 1975), no. 237, p. 285; Lawrence Smith, The Japanese Print Since 1900, Old dreams and new visions (London: British Museum Press, Ltd., 1983), pl. 88b.
For other impressions see Shibuya Shoto Museum, ed., Tokubetsuten: Onchi Koshiro (Special exhibition: Onchi Koshiro) (Tokyo: Shibuya Shoto Museum, 1982), no. 54; Onchi Koshiro hangashu/Prints of Onchi Koshiro (Tokyo: Keishosha, 1975), no. 237, p. 285; Lawrence Smith, The Japanese Print Since 1900, Old dreams and new visions (London: British Museum Press, Ltd., 1983), pl. 88b.