About This Print
Kasamatsu gives a view across the Kanda River as night begins to fall. A yakatabune with its distinctive red lanterns is moored along the embankment. Once lined with geisha houses, Yanagibashi, part of the Asakusabashi area of Tokyo, is today filled with wholesale stores and doll shops.
Modern day view of area near Yanagi bridge
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #34 |
| Title | Near Yanagibashi 柳橋附近 Yanagibashi fukin |
| Series | Eight Views of Tokyo 東京八景の内 Tokyo hakkei no uchi |
| Artist | Kasamatsu Shirō (1898–1991) |
| Signature | unsigned |
| Seal |  |
| Date | originally published 1954 |
| 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 | "gei" 芸 watermark lower left corner. (The "gei" kanji is the first character of the name Unsōdō .) |
| Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
| Format | Oban tate-e |
| H x W Paper | 15 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (40.3 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-88 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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