Shôtei: Mt. fuji at dawn
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Takahashi Shôtei (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)

Mount Fuji, seen from the village Mizukubo, in the last light of the setting sun. The village with its thatched farmhouses sits already in the dusk.

Title: Mizukubo

Signature: Hiroaki. Seal: Hiroaki

Publisher: Watanabe, Tokyo (round 7 mm seal)

Date: first printed in c. 1935

Size: Horizontal Ôban, 23.4 x 37.1 cm (image)

Excellent impression, colours and condition. Later edition, printed from the original blocks in Shôwa period, c. 1980.

Illustrated in: Shimizu, Syotei (Hiroaki) Takahashi. Folk Museum of Ota City, 2005, p. 59, ill. no. 290; MFA Boston, 50.2897. Shotei.com O-17

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