Original woodblock print, Published by Watanabe(77/150) – Itō Shinsui(1898-1972) – Samidaree’ 五月雨 (May rain)  – Japan – 1931(showa 6 period)

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Original woodblock print, Published by Watanabe(77/150) – Itō Shinsui(1898-1972) – Samidaree’ 五月雨 (May rain)  – Japan – 1931(showa 6 period)

Published by Watanabe(77/150)

This was made in the showa period(1964)

Itō Shinsui(1898-1972)memo
Along with Kawase Hasui(川瀬巴水) and Yoshida Hiroshi(吉田博) , he is a master of bijin-ga who led the Shin-hanga movement. Real name is hajime. While working as a printmaker and lithographer, he studied Japanese painting from Nakayama Shuuko (中山秋湖). At the age of 13, he became a disciple of Kaburagi Kiyokata(鏑木清方) and was given the sign of “shinsui”(深水). he was selected at the Nihon Bijutsuin Exhibition when he was 16 years old. After seeing a work of deep water at the venue of the “Kyodokai”(郷土会) held by Kaburagi Kiyokata’s students in 1916, he was invited by Watanabe Shozaburo, who , and produced his first woodblock print “Anti-Mirror”(対鏡) in July of that year. Since then, he has been active as a standard-bearer of the new print movement centered on Watanabe.