Koitsu - Japanese nightingale
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Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949)

Japanese bush warbler (Jap.: Uguisu, Lat.: Cettia diphone), also called Japanese nightingale, singing on a blossoming branch of a plum tree.

Title: Ume Uguisu (Plum warbler)

Signature: Kôitsu

Seal: Shin

Woodcutter: Harada

Printer: Yokoi

Publisher: Doi Hangaten

Date: (1940)

Size: Ôtanzaku (Mitsugiriban), 34,9 x 18 cm.

Very nice impression and colours. Perfectly fresh condition. At upper left margin round watermark „To“. At upper margin slightly fixed to an original (?) presentation matting made of Japanese paper. Fold at upper left margin's corner. Somewhat later edition from the original woodblocks, about 1948-50.

Walker/Doi, Catalogue Raisonné of Tsuchiya Koitsu, TK-DH-78, Fig. 3.78, p 124.

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