Shôtei: Kugatsu
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Takahashi Shôtei (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)

A woman and her little daughter walking on the embankment by the river on a full moon night, enjoying the cooling off after a hot late summer day.

Title: (Kugatsu: Gekka no suzukaze/ryôfû - 9th month: a cool breeze in the moonlight)

Series: (Shinkô Hanga) Tanzaku jûnikagetsu - (New woodblock print) The twelve months in Tanzaku pictures

Signature: Hiroaki

Publisher: (Bijutsu-sha, Tokyo)

Date: early Shôwa period, c. 1930

Size: Ko-Tanzaku, 37,7 x 6,9 cm (overall)

Excellent, very crisp and strong impression and fine colours. As always without seal. Original publisher's backing. Mint condition. Rare.
The titles of the sheets after Shimizu, Syotei (Hiroaki) Takahashi. Folk Museum of Ota City, 2005, pp. 74 u. 79, nos. 429-439 (this image no. 439). Shotei.com P-17.

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