About This Print
This print by Sakamoto Hanjirō, depicting Kami Harbor in Kōnominato, Fukuoka Prefecture [likely with Kusasaki (right) and Katsu Island (center) and Jinoshima Island (left, far background)], is from the 1970 set of re-issued prints (from recut blocks) titled Five Scenes of Tsukushi by the publisher Katō Junji. This set was originally issued in 1918 as part six of the six set series titled Japan Scenery Prints by the publisher Nakajima Jūtarō.
A current view of the area depicted by the artist
Notes of Lawrence Smith on Japan Scenery Prints
Source: Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989, Lawrence Smith, British Museum Press, 1994, p. 42.
"Tsukushi is the ancient name of the area north-west of Kyushu [in the area of Chikuzen and Chikugo provinces] where Sakamoto was born. Sakamoto was rarely involved with sheet-prints, but like his colleagues on this series he had worked as a cartoonist and illustrator and had been a collaborator on the magazine Hōsun hence he was well used to graphic techniques. Indeed, his set is the most strikingly designed in the series, combining impressionist, abstract and Expressionistic elements into a characteristically forceful blend."
For a print from the 1918 original issue see Sea of Fire from the series Japan Scenery Prints, Set 6: Tsukushi District.
The Prints as Originally Issued in 1918 and As Reissued in 1970
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1391 |
| Title |  Title as given in table of contents for 1918 first edition: 神の湊 かみのみなと [Kami no minato - Kami Harbor] Subtitle as given in table of contents for 1918 first edition: 玄海灘を遠望 げんかいなだをえんぼう |
| Series | Five Scenes of Tsukushi [筑紫五景 Tsukushi Gokei] |
| Artist | Sakamoto Hanjirō (1882-1969) |
| Signature | unsigned |
| Seal |   |
| Publication Date | 1970 (originally 1918) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Publisher |  originally by Nakajima Jūtarō 中島 重太郎 of the Japan Scenery Prints Association 日本風景版画会 |
| Carver | |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - mounted in original presentation mat |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | chuban |
| H x W Paper | 7 9/16 x 10 1/2 in. (19.2 x 26.7 cm) |
| H x W Image | 6 13/16 x 9 1/4 in. (17.3 x 23.5 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Carnegie Museum of Art 89.28.116.2 (1918 edition) |
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