HIRATSUKA UN'ICHI (1895-1997)

USUKI ISHIBUTSU (STONE BUDDHAS AT USUKI) KOYASAN OKUNOIN (THE INNERMOST SANCTUARY ON MOUNT KOYA)

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HIRATSUKA UN'ICHI (1895-1997)
Usuki ishibutsu (Stone Buddhas at Usuki)
Koyasan Okunoin (The innermost sanctuary on Mount Koya)
Woodcut, each signed in pencil in Roman script Un-ichi Hiratsuka and in Japanese Hiratsuka Un'ichi, and each sealed Un; the first n.d. [1940]; the second n.d. [1941], signed in pencil in Roman script Un'ichi Hiratsuka and in Japanese Hiratsuka Un'ichi, and sealed, the first with vertical tape stains, the corners torn, the second with tape stains, tear lower center of image to edge, upper right corner torn
16 x 19.3.4in. (43 x 50.3cm.); 16 x 20in. (43 x 51.5cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

For another impression of the first see Helen Merritt, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, The Early Years (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990), 11th color plate; of the second see Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1980), no. 41.