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Takahashi Shôtei (Hiroaki) (1871-1945)
A white cat with a red collar on a deep black ground.
Untitled (usually called "Tama", meaning Jewel, a popular Japanese cat name)
Signature: Hiroaki. Seal: Shôtei
Publisher: Watanabe (round 7 mm seal plus Heisei seal)
Date: Taishô 13 (1924), Heisei edition
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Horizontal Ôban, 23,5 x 33,5 cm (image)
Excellent impression, colours and condition, with strong relief printing. Later edition, printed from the original blocks in the Heisei era.
Shotei.com 0-1. ill. Brown/Goodall-Cristante, Shin-Hanga. New Prints in Modern Japan, Los Angeles 1996, ill. no. 70
€ 780,-