Noel Nouet – Kagurazaka

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published in 1937. The current print was printed between 1956 and 1962.

A Tokyo street in the evening, with warmth and light radiating from a restaurant on the left, from various buildings and from a number of lanterns. As always with prints by Noël Nouët, the style is distinctly different from other Shin-hanga artists due to his use of pencil. The same street was depicted in the print Ushigome Kagurazaka by Tsuchiya Koitsu, providing an excellent point of departure to compare their styles. Interestingly, the atmosphere of the street they captured seems to be very similar.

Image size (excluding margins): 36.5 * 24.0 cm (14.4 * 9.4 in).

The print is in excellent condition.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

An overview of the woodblock prints by Noel Nouet can be found here.

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