Shirô: Tokyo Tower
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Kasamatsu Shirô (1898-1991)

The illuminated Tokyo Tower at night.

Title: Tôkyô Tawâ (Tokyo Tower).

Signature: Shirô. In bottom margin: Shiro Kasamatsu

Seal: Shi

Carver: Okura

Printer: Harada

Publisher: Unsôdô, Kyoto (Unsôdô han)

Date: (1959)

Size: Vertical Ôban, 36,7 x 24,2 cm (image)

Very good impression and colours. Later impression from the original blocks, by the original publisher. With full margins, in mint condition. The small cut-out in bottom right corner is the registration mark (kentô) for printing. With Unsôdô's watermark "Un" in the paper in bottom left corner.
Grund U-101. Ill. in Tsukui Nobuko, Kasamatsu Shirô hanga mokuroku, 2002, p. 33.

€ 480,-