Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Ohara Koson (1877-1945) | |||||
| Title: | Snow at Yanagibashi | |||||
| Size: | 36.2 x 23.9 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: embossing (kara-zuri) on the wooden planking of the bridge.
Yanagibashi (i.e., willow bridge) is a bridge crossing the mouth of the Kanda river at the point where it flows into the Sumida river in Edo. The bridge visible in the far distance on the right is Ryōgoku bridge, see also my second website dedicated to the Sumida river here.
Artist’s signature and seal in lower left of the print area:
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in which the kanji read:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 祥 | shō | good omen | |
| 邨 | son | village | Shōson |
Publisher’s black 6 mm seal (reading Watanabe in katakana) in the bottom right corner of the print area:
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References
- Brown, Kendall H., Putney, Carolyn M., Shūko, Koyama, and Binnie, Paul (2013). Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art.
- The Toledo Museum of Art, Ed. (1930). A special exhibition of modern Japanese prints. Ohio: Toledo.
Provenance: Fuji Arts