Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Takahashi Shōtei (1871-1945) | |||||
| Title: | Thunderstorm at Tateishi | |||||
| Size: | 37.3 x 16.5 cm (mitsugiri-ban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
|
|
Published ca. 1924-1927 by Watanabe Shōzaburō.
Print title in bottom right print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 立 | ta(teru) | raise | |
| 石 | ishi | stone | |
| の | no | ’s | |
| 雷 | rai | thunder | Tateishi’s |
| 雨 | u | rain | thunderstorm |
Together with Shōtei seal:
|
in which the two kanji read:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 松 | shō | pine | |
| 亭 | tei | pavilion | Shōtei |
References
- Marc Kahn’s Shōtei website
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
Provenance: Huys den Esch