Nomura Yoshimitsu (1870-1958)
A couple watching the moon rise at lake of Hirosawa.
Title: Hirosawa no tsuki (The Moon at Hirosawa)
Series: Kyôraku meisho (Famous Places in and around Kyoto)
Signature: Yoshimitsu
Block cutter: Maeda Kentarô
Publisher: Satô Shôtarô, Kyôto
Date: 1931
Size: Hotizontal Oban, 21,3 x 34,6 cm (block size)
Excellent impression and colours. Early second edition, printed in the 1930s with the Satô seal below the signature of the artist.
Cp.: Dorothy blair, Catalouge Toledo Museum of Art, exhibition 1936, No. 287 (details for block cutter and date). The new wave, p. 206. Merrit/Yamada, Guide, p. 112. Also Ritsumeikan arcUP2586 (dated 1930)
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