Rakusan Tsuchiya – Sweet Flag Flowers and Straw-raincloaked Little Egrets (Winter Division)

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published in 1935. The current print was printed in the Reiwa period (2019 – present).

Two Little Egrets are standing between Sweet Flag Flowers. This is one of Rakusan Tsuchiya’s most well known prints from the series ‘Rakusan’s Flower and Bird Print Series’. Please visit rakusan.net for further information about the artists and his works.

The original woodblocks of this print were acquired by the publisher Unsodo in recent years and subsequently used to print the edition shown here. The result is impressively close to the first editions.

Image size (excluding margins): 33.0 * 48.0 cm (13.0 * 18.9 in).

The print is in excellent condition.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

An overview of the woodblock prints by Rakusan Tsuchiya can be found here.

See an overview of Rakusan Tsuchiya's woodblock prints