Lot 76
76
ONCHI KOSHIRO (1891-1955)

"HYOTO" NO CHOSHA, HAGIWARA SAKUTARO ZO (PORTRAIT OF HAGIWARA SAKUTARO, AUTHOR OF THE ICE ISLAND)

Details
ONCHI KOSHIRO (1891-1955)
"Hyoto" no chosha, Hagiwara Sakutaro zo (Portrait of Hagiwara Sakutaro, author of The Ice Island)
Woodcut, n.d. [1955], sealed Ko, attached slip on verso inscribed with title Portrait of a Poet, 1943 and dated Oct/-55, memorial edition printed by Hirai Koichi, signed in ink Hirai Koichi, and stamped with name of artist in Japanese, slight soil in margins
22 x 17in. (56.3 x 45cm.)
Provenance
Dr. Robert Jerry, San Francisco

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Helen Merritt, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, The Early Years (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990), p. 191.