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Floating World Gallery | Benkei Bridge

Benkei Bridge

Koitsu, Tsuchiya, 1870-1949

Benkei Bridge

Artist : Koitsu, Tsuchiya, 1870-1949
Date : 1933
Medium : woodblock
Item# : 270518
Condition : Light rubbing at front bottom margin; faint scuffs in image; paper remnants on reverse from original mount
Image size : 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Comments : Published by Doi Hangaten, carved and printed by Harada-Yokoi; post-war impression
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About The Artist

Koitsu, Tsuchiya, 1870-1949

Born near Hamamatsu. Given name Koichi. At age 15 went to Tokyo to study under Matsuzaki, a carver for Kobayashi Kiyochika. Kiyochika took him into his home where he remained studying for 19 years. Designed woodblock prints during Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895, later worked as lithographer. After meeting Watanabe Shozaburo at an exhibition of Kobayashi Kiyochika's prints, Koitsu designed figurative landscape moku-hanga published by Watanabe, Kawaguchi, and Doi from 1932. Koitsu's prints, li.....

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