Toshogu Shrine, Ueno - From the series "Eight views of Tokyo" - 1953 - Kasamatsu Shiro 笠松紫浪 (1898-1991) - Published by Unsodo - Japão

Artist: Shiro Kasamatsu (1898 - 1991)
Title: Toshogu Shrine, Ueno
Edition: 1st edition
Date: 1953 (Showa 28)
Publisher: Unsodo

Kasamatsu was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga styles of woodblock printing.

Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shozoburo Watanabe from 1919. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960. He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sosaku Hanga style. He produced nearly 80 Sosaku Hanga prints between 1955 and 1965.

This print is of Toshogu Shrine in Ueno from the series Eight Views of Tokyo and is published by Unsodo in 1953
and is a first edition.

Size: (including margins) 40.5 cm x 27.5 cm: (image only) 36 cm x 24 cm

Condition: very good. Although, on the back in the upper and lower right margin there are remnants of additional paper but this cannot be seen from the front.

Shipping: the print will be shipped securely with a tracking number.