Tekiho: An angler on his way home
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Imoto Tekiho (b. 1909)

A hazy coastal landscape; an angler on his way home on the shore between bamboo shrubs and a blossoming old plum tree an. Sumizuri woodblock print in different shades of black ink, in the Chinese-inspired Nanga style.

Signature: Tekiho

Seal: Tekiho

Carver: Harada

Printer: Yokoi

Publisher: Doi Hangaten, Tokyo

Date: Shôwa period, ca. 1930-50s

Size: Vertical Dai-Ôban, 39,2 x 25,7 cm (image)

Excellent impression, the plum blossoms with gofun white. Full margins. Excellent condition. Round watermark "Do" (for Doi) in the upper left corner. Date of first edition unknown, this impression likely c. 1950s. A rarely seen print.
The artist, a Nanga painter and pupil of Dômoto Inshô, was represented with a painting in the large exhibition of works by contemporary Japanese artists 1931 in Berlin.

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