About This Print

One of three prints I purchased as a group attributed to the print and nihonga artist Ide Gakusui (1899-1978) who designed most of his prints for the publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962). This print, which is neither titled or dated (though it bears a pencil notation verso reading "30 May 57"), is the only one of the three to bear the artist's mark, a rectangular cartouche with the stylized characters 岳水. The other two prints do not bear any artist's mark, but are titled and dated in the left margin (the date inscribed being 昭和卅三年一月, January 1958) and also bear a pencil notation verso reading "30 May 57" along with the pencil notation "Ide".  All three prints appear to be in the style of sōsaku hanga, rather than the shin hanga style of his prints designed for Watanabe.  None of the three prints carry a publisher's mark.