About This Print
 | Autumn and the maple tress are aflame in this depiction of the Mochizuri Stone (the "dyeing stone" or "pattern-pressing stone") and a small temple in the Mochizuri Kannon temple grounds in Mojizuri (formerly Shinobu Village) on the outskirts of Fukushima City. The stone was visited by the haiku poet and traveler Matsuo Bashō during his Narrow Road of Oku journey, which he began in 1689, and appears in a famous poem titled Kawara no Sadijin by Minamoto no Toru (822-295) about unrequited love. |
This print is one of four in a set of prints titled Four Seasons of Fukushima.
1 website of the Fukushima City Tourism and Convention Association https://fukushima-guide.jp/discover/mochizuri-kannon/
last revision:
Four Seasons of Fukushima 福島の四季
top left: 波立の海 top right: 信夫文字摺石
bottom left: 須賀川の牡丹 bottom right: 鶴ヶ城望遠
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2235 |
| Title/Description | Shinobu Mojizuriishi 信夫文字摺石 |
| Series | Four Seasons of Fukushima 福島の四季 |
| Artist | Sakamoto Isamu (b. 1931) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal |  |
| Publication Date | 1982 |
| Edition | 114 of 150 |
| Publisher | Gakushū Kenkyūsha 学習研究社 |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative prints) |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 15 3/8 x 20 3/8 in. (39.1 x 51.8 cm ) |
| H x W Image | 13 x 19 in. (33 x 48.3 cm) |
| Collections This Print |
1/29/2020 created
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