Rain at Yabakei
Goyo, Hashiguchi, 1880-1921
Rain at Yabakei- Artist : Goyo, Hashiguchi, 1880-1921
- Date : 1918
- Medium : woodblock
- Item# : 230776
- Condition : Small repair to tear at top margin, extending into image
- Dimensions : 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
- Comments : Rare lifetime impression; silver mica highlights in rain
- SOLD
About The Artist
Goyo, Hashiguchi, 1880-1921Born in Kagoshima. Son of Hashiguchi Kanemizu, a samurai and amateur painter in the Shijo style. Given name Kiyoshi. Reported to have taken the name Goyo while in art school because of fondness for the five-needle pine (goyo matsu) in his father's garden. The elder Hashiguchi engaged a teacher of Kano-style painting for his son when Kiyoshi was 10 and in 1899 encouraged him to study Japanese-style painting under Hashimoto Gaho in Tokyo. Goyo shifted to Western-style painting under Kuroda Se.....
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