Hodo Nishimura Summer Rain 1930s Japanese Woodblock Print

Hodo Nishimura Summer Rain 1930s Japanese Woodblock Print

Hodo Nishimura Summer Rain 1930s Japanese Woodblock Print

Hodo Nishimura Summer Rain 1930s Japanese Woodblock Print

Nishimura is generally believed to have been an in-house artist for the publisher Takemura Hideo in Yokahama from around 1930 until the business shut down in 1941. He is known to have signed his watercolors and some of his woodcuts as “Saito Hodo” or H. The majority of the work attributed to him was created in the late 1930s using traditional woodblock technique. His work was collected by the famous Japanese print collector Robert Muller. 6 x 14 1/2′ (sight) matted under glass in a bamboo style frame.