About This Print
Tokuriki has given us a view from across the Kurashiki canal of an old house in the Kurashiki Bikan historical quarter. While this collection's print is unsigned and not editioned, another state of the print using brownish tints was both signed and sealed by the artist and editioned, as can be seen below. It appears that the same blocks were used for both states of the print.
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
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Kurashiki is located west of Okayama Prefecture's southern plains.
During the Edo Period some 350 years ago, the area along the
Kurashiki-gawa River was under direct control of the shogunate
government and trade by boat helped the town to prosper.
Clusters of of-fashioned white-walled storehouses and rows of
townhouses with lattice windows line both sides of the Kurashiki River
in this nationally designated Important Traditional Structures
Conservation Area. |
Print Details
IHL Catalog |
#772 |
Title |
Private House in Kurashiki Kurashiki (倉敷の民家 Kurashiki no Minka).
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Series |
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Artist
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Tokuriki
Tomikichirō (1902-2000)
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Signature
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Tomi 冨
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Seal |
not sealed
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Date |
c. 1960s (undated)
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Edition |
unknown
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Publisher |
self-published, likely through Matsukyu (Tokuriki's own publishing
operation)
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Impression |
excellent |
Colors |
excellent |
Condition |
good - slight toning; traces of prior mounting verso
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Genre |
sosaku
hanga (new print)
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Miscellaneous |
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Format |
oban
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H x W Paper |
10 1/2 x 16 in. (26.7 x 40.6
cm) |
H x W Image
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8 7/8 x 14 3/8 in. (22.5 x 36.5 cm)
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Collections This Print |
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1975.004.001
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Reference Literature |
Wood-block Printing, Tomikichiro Tokuriki, Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd., 1968, p. 46.
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