Rare Tsuchiya Koitsu Print! A rare 1941 woodblock print by renowned artist Tsuchiya Koitsu. Titled ” The Pond of Sarusawa, Nara on a Rainy Evening”, size of printed area is 9 1/2″ by 14 1/4″. The Pond of Sarusawa, Nara on a Rainy Evening. Date of this item. Official English title: The Pond of Sarusawa, Nara on a Rainy Evening Signature: Koitsu, seal Shin Date: 1941 June Papersize: 39.6 x 27 cm Description: Publisher: Baba Nabuhiko. With printer Ito and carver Katsumura seal in lower right margin. Born in 1870 near Hamamatsu City (Shizuoka Prefecture) with the name “Sahei”, Koitsu moved to Tokyo at the age of fifteen. He had planned to apprentice with Matsuzaki, a carver for the artist Kobayashi Kiyochika, but instead, he became Kiyochika’s apprentice and moved into his home to study art and print design. Koitsu lived with Kiyochika for 19 years and was considered more a member of Kiyochika’s family than an apprentice. He worked and studying with Kiyochika until around Meiji 36 (1903). In Taisho 11 (1922) he moved to his wife’s place of birth in Chigasaki City and lived there until his death. In 1932 he started to produce landscape prints in the shin hanga style for Watanabe, the first being titled’Cherry Blossom Viewing at Gion’, and he went on to design a total of ten prints for Watanabe. He later designed prints for various publishers including Doi Sadaichi (known incorrectly in the West as Doi Teiichi), and a few prints for Kawaguchi, the Kyoto publisher Baba Nobuhiko, the publisher Tanaka Shobido, and the publisher Takemura. Around the same time that Tsuchiya Koitsu began his shin hanga career, another artist by the name of Ishiwata Koitsu was also pursuing a career as a shin-hanga landscape artist. Despite sharing the same given name “Koitsu”, the two men were not related. Their works are sometimes confused since both artists signed their works “Koitsu”. However, the styles of their woodblock prints are quite distinctive, as are their seals. All of our items are stored in a non-smoking environment. Most of our items have a 14 day, no questions asked return, if you are not completely satisfied. 5 star service , we aim to make our buyers happy! The item “Japanese Woodblock Print Tsuchiya KOITSU The Pond of Sarusawa Nara Rainy Evening” is in sale since Tuesday, January 31, 2017. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “mouseswap_com” and is located in Greenwood, Indiana. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, RU, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, BR, CL, CO, CR, PA, TT, GT, HN, JM.

• Color: Multi-Color
• Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints
• Age: 1900-1940
• Maker: koitsu
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Region of Origin: Japan
• Primary Material: Paper