Tori-no-Ichi Festival in Asakusa
by Koizumi Kishio (1893–1945)
€700.00 Sold
- Type
- Original woodblock print
- First edition
- 1940
- This impression
- Showa period (1926 - 1989)
- Image size
- 37.3 × 28.2 cm
- Signing
- Hand-signed
- Condition
- Very good (see condition notes)
Description
The current design is part of the series One Hundred Pictures of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era. Koizumi Kishio completed this series in 1937, but created nine new designs between 1939 and 1940 that replaced eight of the original hundred. There has been speculation about his reasons; he might simply have wished to provide improved versions of the initial designs, but his motives remain uncertain. The current print was among the eight original designs for which an alternative was later created. The current print is one of these remade works, replacing the original design from 1932.
Condition notes
The print is in very good state. There are a few wrinkles in the left margin, and a tiny irregularity in the paper in the outer left margin, halfway. On the back remnants of a previous mounting remain.
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