Kôitsu: The Sengaku-ji in Takanawa
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Tsuchiya Kôitsu (1870-1949)

A rainy evening on the premises of the famous Sôtô Zen temple Sengaku-ji in Takanawa, Tokyo.

Title: Takanawa Sengaku-ji (Sengaku temple in Takanawa)

Signature: Kôitsu

Seal: Shin

Carver: Harada

Printer: Yokoi

Publisher: Doi Hanga-ten, Tokyo

Date: Shôwa 8 (1933)

Size: Horizontal Ôban, 23,9 x 36,4 cm (image size)

Excellent impression and colours. Full margins. Paper a little bit age-toned. A small oblong bright scratch or printer error on the right side. Verso in top margin two paper remnants from former attachment. Doi watermark in top right corner. A little later impression, c. 1950s.

Walker/Doi, Catalogue Raisonné of Tsuchiya Koitsu, TK-DH-7, p. 56, fig. 3.9.

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