Catalog record · 目録番号 124642

Hatsumode

初詣

Catalog note / 解説

Thursday, 25 January 2007 TATSUMI SHIMURA - Limited Edition "Hatsumode" (A New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine)"Hatsumode" (A New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine) this extremely rare woodblock by Tatsumi Shimura (1907-1980). Limited Edition, print 363 of 450. Tatsumi said about this print, "The morning sun shines on a pillar of a washhand stand in shrine. We can draw a Maiko(young Geisha) really in various ways. I sketch it very a lot, and I took a photograph, but it is very difficult to draw Maiko (young Geisha). It is self-justification, but painters of east of Japan ( Tokyo) cannot draw a woman of Kyoto . In addition, painters of west of Japan (Kansai - Kyoto or Osaka) cannot draw an Edo…

Image record / 画像情報

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