About This Print
Kasamatsu depicts what remained of the Imai ferry boat terminal in the early 1950s. The Imai river boat was used to cross Edo River until 1912 (the first year of Taishō) until Imai Bridge was built.
Edogawa as seen from Imai Bridge c. 1990s
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #28 |
| Title | Edo River at Imai 江戸川 今井 |
| Series | |
| Artist | Kasamatsu Shirō (1898–1991) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | red Shirō 紫浪 seal (see above) |
| Date | originally published 1955 |
| Edition | later post-1960 edition, as indicated by lack of date in Kanji on the bottom of the left margin. (For more information on dating Unsōdō prints see the article Unsōdō Publishing.) |
| Publisher |  seal reading: 芸艸堂 版 Unsōdō han [Marks: pub. ref. 566; seal not shown] |
| Printer |  seal reading: 摺 新味 suri Shinmi |
| Carver |  seal reading: 彫 長嶋 hori Nagashima |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Miscellaneous |  |
| Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
| Format | ōban tate-e |
| H x W Paper | 15 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (40 x 27.6 cm) |
| H x W Image | 14 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (36.5 x 24.1 cm) |
| Collections This Print | |
| Reference Literature | Catalogue Raisonné: U-119 as listed in Shiro Kasamatsu - The Complete Woodblock Prints, Dr. Andreas Gund, self-published by the author, 2001, Tokyo |
8/17/2021
8/6/2018
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