Nomura Yoshimitsu (1870-1958)
A vivid crowd at the riverside of the Kamo-river by night, watching the spectacular fire display of the Kanji “Dai” (large) at the slope of Mt. Daimonji (Nyoigadake) in Kyoto.
Title: Nijô-bashi yori Daimonji o nozomu (The Daimonji seen from Nijô bridge)
Series: Kyôraku meisho (Famous Places in and around Kyoto)
Signature: Yoshimitsu
Block cutter: Maeda Kentarô
Publisher: Satô Shôtarô
Date: 1931
Size: Horizontal Oban, 21,4 x 34,8 cm (block size)
Excellent impression, colours and condition. Minor creases, at the left margin some small tears, altogether in very good condition. Early second edition, printed in the 1930s with the Satô seal below the signature of the artist.
Cp.: Dorothy Blair, Catalogue Toledo Museum of Art, exhibition 1936 (set without this print). The new wave, S. 206. Merritt/Yamada, Guide, S. 112. Also Ritsumeikan arcUP2588 (dated 1930)
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