SKU: KOI17
Tsuchiya Koitsu Comorant Fishing in Nagara River, 1940
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Comorant Fishing in Nagara River, 1940
Signed in lower right, Artists Seal
Printed 1950-63 on "Do" watermarked paper
10 1/2 by 15 5/8 inches
Lightly toned paper, slight creasing
KOI17 $545
Tsuchiya Koitsu (1879-1949) was a master of the Shin Hanga movement. Born in rural Japan, he came the attention of the ukiyo-e master Kobayashi Kiyochika in whose house he lived and studied for 19 years.
In 1931 he met the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo who was spear-heading the new Shin Hanga movement, focused on natural beauty, light, landscapes, people, birds & flowers. Inspired by the new direction Koitsu began to create hauntingly beautiful scenes of Japan bathed in moonlight, sunsets and the changing seasons.
