YOSHIMITSU -- "Moon at Hirosawa Pond"

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Artist NOMURA, Yoshimitsu c1870-c1935 (active 1890's-1930's)
Title "Moon at Hirosawa Pond"
("Hirosawa no Tsuki")
Date 1931 (First Edition #196/200 "verso seal")
Series "Famous Places of Kyoto"
("Kyoraku Meisho," a six-print series)
Publisher Sato Shotaro Publisher (Kyoto, c1895-1931)
Seal, Carver/Printer Blocks cut by Maeda.
Image Size 8 3/8 x 13 1/2
Impression Very Fine. Wonderfully executed "bokashi" shading; lightly "gauffraged" (embossed) horizon; highly detailed carving, crisp lines.
Condition Good+++. Excellent colors. Clean front and verso. (Scattered spotting (mostly to margins); light toning; few surface scratches.)
Reference/Illus Blair's 1936 "Toldedo Exhibition" pl. #287.
Comments A classic "shin hanga" print of the Toledo Exhibition.
"First Edition"--rare.
Item # DW-08
Price $275 (No longer available)