Shiro Kasamatsu Hirakawamon Gate Tokyo

Hirakawamon Gate 1952
16 1/2 by 11 inches
Signed with artist's seal lower right
Later edition
KAS69 $235

Shiro Kasamatsu (1894-1992) made over 50 woodblock prints for Watanabe. When fire destroyed Wantanabe's workshop during the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, his prints were destroyed. Changing publishers to Unsodo in Kyoto, he created 102 prints. He later made about 80 prints in the Sosaku Hanga style in a wide range of subjects, with intense colors and beautiful night, animal & bird scenes.