Tsuchiya Koitsu
Maiko-no hama: Maiko Beach, 1936 (c. 1950 impression)
Woodblock (nishiki-e)
27 x 19 cm
10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in
10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in
Sanders of Oxford
Online only
Online only
£ 775.00
Artist Signature: Koitsu Artist Seal: Shin Publisher: Doi Block Carver: Harada Printer: Yokoi Reference: Walker, Ross F.: Doi, Toshikazu. The Catalogue Raisonne of Tsuchiya Koitsu, 2008. Reference: TK-DH-23-V1. A rare...
Artist Signature: Koitsu
Artist Seal: Shin
Publisher: Doi
Block Carver: Harada
Printer: Yokoi
Reference: Walker, Ross F.: Doi, Toshikazu. The Catalogue Raisonne of Tsuchiya Koitsu, 2008. Reference: TK-DH-23-V1.
A rare grey scale impression of Koitsu’s Maiko-no hama: Maiko Beach. The night time scene shows a full moon in the sky above the water, the light reflecting in the ripples. Three boats are seen on the water, the faint outline of land seen in the background. A tree cuts across the scene from the right, its branches reaching out across the sky.
Koitsu Tsuchiya (1870 -1949) was born near Hamamatsu City (Shizuoka Prefecture) with the name "Sahei" and moved to Tokyo at the age of fifteen. He became Kiyochika's apprentice and moved into his home to study art and print design. Koitsu lived with Kiyochika for 19 years and it is through Kiyochika that Koitsu gained his trademark skill in the subtle use of light and shadow for his landscape prints. He worked and studying with Kiyochika until 1903. In 1922 he moved to his wife's place of birth in Chigasaki City and lived there until his death.
Condition: Doi watermark to top left corner of sheet.
Artist Seal: Shin
Publisher: Doi
Block Carver: Harada
Printer: Yokoi
Reference: Walker, Ross F.: Doi, Toshikazu. The Catalogue Raisonne of Tsuchiya Koitsu, 2008. Reference: TK-DH-23-V1.
A rare grey scale impression of Koitsu’s Maiko-no hama: Maiko Beach. The night time scene shows a full moon in the sky above the water, the light reflecting in the ripples. Three boats are seen on the water, the faint outline of land seen in the background. A tree cuts across the scene from the right, its branches reaching out across the sky.
Koitsu Tsuchiya (1870 -1949) was born near Hamamatsu City (Shizuoka Prefecture) with the name "Sahei" and moved to Tokyo at the age of fifteen. He became Kiyochika's apprentice and moved into his home to study art and print design. Koitsu lived with Kiyochika for 19 years and it is through Kiyochika that Koitsu gained his trademark skill in the subtle use of light and shadow for his landscape prints. He worked and studying with Kiyochika until 1903. In 1922 he moved to his wife's place of birth in Chigasaki City and lived there until his death.
Condition: Doi watermark to top left corner of sheet.
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