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Shotei | Mannen Bridge

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高橋松亭 Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)

万年桥
Mannen Bridge

1909～1923(Pre-earthquake)

木版画 | 大短册纵绘 | 38cm x 17cm(左) & 31.3cm x 14.8cm(右)
Woodblock-print | Nagaban Tate-e | 38cm x 17cm(Right) & 31.3cm x 14.8cm(Left)

早期版次；颜色鲜艳；品相非常好
Fine impression, color and condition.

$3,500

This composition was issued both as a Nishiki-e (left) and a Chirimen-e (right).
The Nishiki-e version is a standard multi-color woodblock print on smooth Washi paper, while the Chirimen-e version was produced through an additional post-printing process in which the finished print was pressed between boards to create a finely wrinkled surface. This technique, popular format for export prints in the late Meiji through the Taisho and into the early Showa period. — giving the image a rippled surface and a textile-like charm. The difference in paper and printing reveals how Japanese woodblock prints evolved from fine art to cultural souvenirs for an international audience.

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高橋松亭 Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)

万年桥
Mannen Bridge

1909～1923(Pre-earthquake)

木版画 | 大短册纵绘 | 38cm x 17cm(左) & 31.3cm x 14.8cm(右)
Woodblock-print | Nagaban Tate-e | 38cm x 17cm(Right) & 31.3cm x 14.8cm(Left)

早期版次；颜色鲜艳；品相非常好
Fine impression, color and condition.

$3,500

This composition was issued both as a Nishiki-e (left) and a Chirimen-e (right).
The Nishiki-e version is a standard multi-color woodblock print on smooth Washi paper, while the Chirimen-e version was produced through an additional post-printing process in which the finished print was pressed between boards to create a finely wrinkled surface. This technique, popular format for export prints in the late Meiji through the Taisho and into the early Showa period. — giving the image a rippled surface and a textile-like charm. The difference in paper and printing reveals how Japanese woodblock prints evolved from fine art to cultural souvenirs for an international audience.

Interested in purchasing?
Please contact us.

Takahashi Shotei (1871–1945)

Takahashi Shotei may have once been the most well-known Japanese woodblock print artist in the world, even if the Westerners who flooded Japan in the early part of the 20th Century didn’t know his name.

Watanabe Shozaburo hired him to design shinsaku-hanga (souvenir prints) to fulfill tourists’ demand for Ukiyoe-style woodblock landscape prints similar to those created in the past by masters of that genre, especially Hiroshige. These prints sold extremely well to this new audience, and were often in unusual sizes, to striking effect. (We wonder what Hiroshige would have thought of them.)

Shotei eventually took the name Hiroaki and produced hundreds of designs, but the blocks were destroyed in the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. This is when Watanabe assigned him the unusual task of recreating his own works. He lived until 1945.