It is called Night Fishing and it is a PRE earthquake print. It is from before 1923. It has the Shotei name seal and a very rare Watanabe 5-petal seal with the number “3″ in Japanese. This is an early inventory number of Watanabe Publishing. I had some help on this print from the owner of Shotei website (easy enough to find). After seeing this print he added a note to his website that reads: Pre-quake version of M-2. A copy of this print has been found with an early Watanabe 5-petal cartouche containing the number’3′ just below the artist’s seal. He added this after seeing photos of this print that I sent him. It sounds like this could be the first one like this seen. I know for sure this is a pre quake print but I do not know the exact date. I’m guessing that it is 1920 or before as in 1921 he started using Hiroaki as his signature. The print he shows is not my print he just added the info from my seal mark that hasn’t been seen before. The print is in excellent condition and measures 14 7/8″ x 6.75″ (37.8cm x 17.2cm). It is not often that a pre-quake print by Shotei comes up. A super piece for any collection. Please ask if you have any questions. Check out my other listings for more cool antiques. Old antique vintage retro america american adv adv. Advertising history historic antique vintage delicate us usa united states of america early 1900s turn of the century // takahashi shotei print prints asia asian japan nippon japanese art artist famous matsumoto katsutaro tokyo uki-yo printing paper history samurai hiroaki shinhanga shin hanga ukiyo-e kanto earthquake watanabe publisherpublishers printers vintage old antique early 1900s 1920s 20s shotei takahashi asia asian woodblock wood block print printing art artist artistic japan nippon antique museum quality 1900s early rare scarce bridge bridges fish fishing boat boats publish publisher. The item “RARE Takahashi Shotei Japanese Woodblock Print Pre-1923 Pre Quake NIGHT FISHING” is in sale since Sunday, June 2, 2019. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “thechocoberry” and is located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Monaco, Viet nam, Uruguay, Russian federation.
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