Takashi ITO -- "Ferry at Odai, Tokyo" (#2)

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Artist Takashi ITO (1894-1982)
Title "Ferry at Odai, Tokyo"
("Odai no Watashi")
Date ca1923-32
Provenance Private placement. Consigned by family of Navy Hospital Corps servicewoman Verna Woodrich stationed in Yokohama/Tokyo 1947.
Series na
Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo
Seal, Carver/Printer unsealed (not uncommon from Watanabe). Known collected 1947.
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading throughout print; "gauffrage" (embossing) to boats and smoke area; deeply saturated colors; highly detailed carving.
Condition Nearly Excellent. Excellent colors. Very clean front and verso. (Light toning; soft crease upper sky area; very slight wear.) All prints within this 1947 collection have never been displayed -- stored flat past 71 years.
Reference/Illus na
Comments Colorful and highly detailed harbor scene. Seldom seen.
From a 1947 Tokyo Japan military collection.
Item # SF-51
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