KOITSU -- "(Tea House) Yokocho at Yotsuya Araki" (#5)

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Title "(Tea House) Yokocho at Yotsuya Araki"
("Yotsuya Araki Yokocho")
Date 1935
Provenance Found in original "presentation folder" (no prior mounts).
Series na
Publisher Doi Publisher
("Hanmoto Tokyo Do" seal)
(Doi "watermark" upper left)
Carver/Printer "Hanmoto Tokyo Do"
(pre-War printing)
Image Size 9 1/2 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Superbly executed "bokashi" shading; "gauffrage" (embossing) to kimonos and entry door; very finely carved details, crisp key-lines.
Condition Very Good to Nearly Excellent.
Fresh strong colors.
(Very faint presentation folder mat-line bottom image, few faint marks top margin--otherwise flawless.)
Reference/Illus Chigasaki Museum's 1999 Koitsu Exhibition Catalogue, p15, pl# 16; Andacht p145.
Comments Superb mastery of light for which Koitsu is so well known. Koitsu's classic "Tea House" image.
Item # DG-828
Price $625 (Sold/MJ)