About This Print
This print picturing the NHK Museum of Broadcast in Atagoyama in Tokyo, formerly the Tokyo Broadcasting Station, is one of only two prints by Sekino published by Watanabe Shōzaburō. While this print does not bear any Watanabe publishing seals, other impressions, such as the one shown below, do bear the publisher's 6mm round seal in the lower left portion of the image.
It is likely that this print would have been carved and printed by Watanabe staff rather than by Sekino
himself. The 1962 catalog of the publisher S. Watanabe lists this print on p. 82 and assigns it the inventory number Cp 2 and notes that it is sold out.
While Japan's first radio broadcast at 9.30 a.m. on March 22, 1925 was transmitted from a temporary studio of the Tokyo Broadcasting Station in Tokyo's Shibaura district, the radio station that came on line in July of that same year at Atagoyama in Tokyo, became known as "the birth place of Japanese broadcasting."
NHK Museum of Broadcast
The NHK Museum of Broadcast was opened in 1956 as the first museum exclusively exhibiting the broadcasting items in Atagoyama in Tokyo, the birthplace of Japan's broadcasting historyAtagoyama, the Birth Place of Japanese Broadcasting
Source: The NHK Museum of Broadcast http://www.nhk.or.jp/museum/index-e.htmlWhile Japan's first radio broadcast at 9.30 a.m. on March 22, 1925 was transmitted from a temporary studio of the Tokyo Broadcasting Station in Tokyo's Shibaura district, the radio station that came on line in July of that same year at Atagoyama in Tokyo, became known as "the birth place of Japanese broadcasting."
NHK Broadcasting Center c. 1925
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #304 |
| Title | Atagoyama (愛宕山) [NHK Broadcasting Museum at Atagoyama NHK hōsō hakubutsukan (放送博物館)] |
| Series | Scenes of Last Tokyo (Tokyo kaiko zue) |
| Artist | Sekino Jun’ichirō (1914 - 1988) |
| Signature | Sekino in English script stamped in black lower right corner of image |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date | 1955 |
| Edition | unknown |
| Publisher | Watanabe Shōzaburō (Publisher) (1885-1962) |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | fair |
| Condition | fair - heavy toning and mat line; colors faded |
| Genre | shin hanga (new print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | oban |
| H x W Paper | 15 x 10 5/8 in. (38.1 x 27 cm) |
| H x W Image | 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (36.8 x 25.1 cm) |
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