Kasamatsu Shirô (1898-1991)
On a rainy evening a lady under her umbrella is passing by the pagoda of Tennôji temple in Yanaka, Tokyo. The pagoda was destroyed in a fire in 1957, and has not been rebuilt.
Title: Ame ni kureru tô – Tôkyô Yanaka (Pagoda in rain at nightfall – Yanaka, Toyko)
Signature: Shirô
Seal: Shirô
Publisher: Watanabe, Tokyo (round 6 mm seal)
Date: Shôwa 7 (1932)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 36,2 x 24 cm (image size)
Very nice impression and colours. From an early postwar edition, printed c. 1945-57. Paper slightly age-toned, verso in upper left margin a little brownish. Two small usual drying holes in left margin. Few weak horizontal creases smoothed and unobtrusive. Overall very good condition
Grund W-8. Blair, Toledo Kat. 1936, No. 164. Cf. MFA Boston, No. 50.273; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, No. 1978.1.69.
€ 1.580,-