Title Rain in Kiyomizu Temple
Showa 1926-1989
The three storied pagoda of Kiyomizu temple in a rainy day.
Woodblock print & signed by the artist
Showa 1926-1989
image 14.5" x 9.5"
The image is in excellent condition, it is rich in colors. No wear or
damages on the image, it's under glass
The pink matte around has some light line or shadow, nothing
bad, visible only at specific angles, perhaps from
where matte and glass are touching?
I will ship insured. The frame looks perfect for the image.
Let me know if you want just the image but not the frame.
Framed is 20.5" x 15.5"
Takeji Asano was born in 1900 in Kyoto (died in 1999). He graduated from Kyoto City School of Fine Arts in 1919 and in 1923 from Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting. One of his teachers was Tsuchida Bakusen. Takeji Asano became a leading painter and print artist of the sosaku hanga art movement.
Prints of the sosaku hanga art movement have until our days remained a small market niche. Therefore, in order to make a living and pay the rent at month's end and the weekly shopping at the grocery market, many of the sosaku hanga artists in Kyoto were also active in creating prints in shin hanga style in cooperation with publishers like Unsodo or Uchida. Takeji Asano and Tokuriki Tomikichiro are among the best-known artists who worked in this co-existence of two different art movements.
Takeji Asano died in 1999 at the age of 99 years. He is said to have worked with watercolors and drawings until his late years.
15.9 inches = 40.5 cm