YOSHIMITSU -- "Snow on the Banks of the Kamo River" (#2)

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Artist NOMURA, Yoshimitsu (c1870-c1935)
(active 1890's-1930's)
Title "Snow on the Banks of the Kamo River"
("Kamo Tsutsumi no Yuki")
Date 1931 (Second Edition)
Series "Famous Places of Kyoto"
("Kyoraku Meisho," a six-print series)
Publisher Sato Shotaro Publisher (Kyoto, c1895-1931)
Seal, Carver/Printer na
Image Size 8 3/8 x 13 1/2
Impression Very Fine. Wonderfully executed "bokashi" shading; lightly "gauffraged" (embossed) snow; "gofun" snow over-printed onto blue; very detailed carving; crisp lines.
Condition Nearly Excellent. Excellent colors.
Clean front and verso. (Crease upper/left margin corner; slight wear--otherwise flawless.) A few scattered "natural paper fiber" irregularities (normal for early 1930's paper).
Old pre-War "dealer's sticker" verso.
Reference/Illus Blair's 1936 "Toldedo Exhibition" pl. #289.
Comments A classic "shin hanga" print of the Toledo Exhibition. (Lacks "first edition verso seal"--but very early. Sato Shotaro ceased business in 1931.) Red "collector's seal" right margin. Not often seen.
Item # DG-751
Price $550 (Sold/AK)