About This Print
One of the artist's 14 prints created during his lifetime, picturing an excursion boat being steered down the Hozu River rapids by three boatmen. For another print picturing the rapids see The Hozu-gawa Rapids at Kyoto in Summer by Tokuriki Tomikichirō (1902-2000).Entry in the original Toledo Museum of Art 1930 Catalog:
122 THE HOZU RAPIDS (Shoka no Hozu-gawa)
Rocky gorge in dark, light and warm greys; green and red foliage; flecked blue water; grey-green and grey-blue hills. Boat in two tones of greyed yellow-orange, white canopy; clothing of men makes spots of light green, white, brown, blue and grey.
Signed, “Suizan”; seal “Sato Sho Han” (Sato Shotaro, publisher). Margin “Shoka no Hozu-gawa” (Early Summer on Hozu River.) Edition, 200 impressions. Blocks cut by Mayeda; printed by Oiwa, 1924. 10 7/16” x 15 7/16”
The website OsakaPrints.com shows what may be a later printing of this work, along with preparatory drawings for the print and a 1936 koban-size recut of the print.
Illustration for Broad Sea and Empty Sky China's First Great Modern Poet, Xu Zhimo
Hozugawa has the elegance of blue unbroken mountains,
And as it would at treacherous Foshan Gorge
The small boat shoots like an arrow through flying foam.
Sayonara!
(Hozu River Rapids)
1 Broad Sea and Empty Sky China's First Great Modern Poet, Xu Zhimo, Dorothy Trench Bonett, Floating World Editions, 2021, p. 57, illustration p. 63.
Hozu-gawa Rapids
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hozu_River
The Hozu River is considered scenic, and is known primarily for its association with Hozugawa Kudari, literally "down the Hozu river", a sightseeing whitewater boat that goes downstream from Kameoka to Arashiyama. Hozugawa Kudari is especially popular in the fall, when the Japanese Maple leaves change colors, and in the Spring, when the sakura, or Japanese cherry tree, blooms. The trip usually takes about two hours.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1015 | ||
| Title or Description |  | ||
| Series | New Selection of Noted Places of Kyoto (Shinsen Kyōto meisho) [also seen translated as "Select Views of Kyoto, Second Series" (Shinsen Kyōto meisho dainishū)] | ||
| Artist | Miki Suizan (1887-1957) | ||
| Signature |  | ||
| Seal | no artist's seal | ||
| Publication Date | 1924 | ||
| Publisher |
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| Edition | 1st edition of 200 prints (unnumbered) | ||
| Carver | Maeda Kentarō | ||
| Printer | Ōiwa Tokuzō | ||
| Impression | excellent | ||
| Colors | excellent | ||
| Condition | good - trimmed to image on left and bottom; trimmed at angle on top; minor mat burn along left and bottom of image; tape remnants top and bottom right margins | ||
| Genre | shin hanga | ||
| Miscellaneous | |||
| Format | horizontal oban | ||
| H x W Paper | 11 x 16 1/8 in. (27.9 x 41 cm) note: print is irregularly trimmed as follows: height along left edge 10 5/8 in. (27 cm) height along right edge 11 in. (27.9 cm) width along top edge 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm) width along bottom edge 16 1/8 in. (41 cm) | ||
| H x W Image | 10 5/8 x 15 1/2 in. (27 x 39.46 cm) | ||
| Literature | Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Carol M. Putney, et. al., Toledo Museum of Art, 2014, p. 174-175; Modern Japanese Prints, Dorothy Blair, The Toledo Art Museum 1997, cat. 122; Broad Sea and Empty Sky China's First Great Modern Poet, Xu Zhimo, Dorothy Trench Bonett, Floating World Editions, 2021 | ||
| Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 38.723; National Diet Library (a portfolio of the artist's 14 prints) http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1014915 |
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