Tsuchiya Koitsu, 'Godaido Shrine, Matsushima'.
Woodblock print. Sheet size 29.2 x 20.3 cm. Frame 38.5 x 30.5 cm.
Faded. The left margin carefully attached to the mounting.
Tsuchiya Kōitsu (Japanese: 土屋光逸) was a Japanese artist in the Shin-hanga movement. He trained under the ukiyo-e master Kobayashi Kiyochika for 19 years, and initially focused on works depicting scenes from the First Sino-Japanese War. In 1931, at the age of 60, he began work for Shōzaburō Watanabe and his art publishing establishment which also published the work of artists like Kawase Hasui and Yoshida Hiroshi. His later work incorporated light effects to increase the emotional impact of his art.
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