About This Print
A later edition of a 1958 print picturing the sun setting behind the distant mountains behind the Alpine village of Minakami, a hot spring and ski resort. The Tone River, seen in the foreground, reflects the last of the sunset's glow.Minakami
Source: website of Japan-guide.com www.japan-guide.com/e/e7460.htmlinakami (水上) is a mountainous hot spring resort town within easy reach of Tokyo in northern Gunma Prefecture. In the shadow of nearby Mount Tanigawa, Minakami, together with Kusatsu, Ikaho, and Shima, make up the four best known hot spring towns of Gunma. Perhaps its most famous baths are found at Takaragawa Onsen, a mixed hot spring with some of the largest outdoor baths in Japan.
Minakami and Tone River
Print Details
IHL Catalog | #1179 |
Title | Remaining Light at Jōshū, Minakami 残燈 上州水上 Zantō, jōshū Minakami |
Series | |
Artist | Kasamatsu Shirō (1898–1991) |
Signature | Shirō 紫浪 lower left of image Shiro Kasamatsu in English script printer in bottom margin on right |
Seal | red Shirō 紫浪 seal (see above) |
Date | originally published 1958 |
Edition | later edition, possibly 21st century (For more information on dating Unsōdō prints see the article Unsōdō Publishing.) |
Publisher | |
Printer | suri Saji 摺 佐治 |
Carver | seal reading: hori Ōkura 彫 大くら |
Impression | excellent |
Colors | excellent |
Condition | excellent |
Miscellaneous | |
Genre | shin hanga (new prints) |
Format | ōban tate-e |
H x W Paper | 16 x 10 7/8 in. (40.6 x 27.6 cm) |
H x W Image | 14 3/8 x 9 9/16 in. (36.5 x 24.3 cm) |
Collections This Print | |
Reference Literature | Catalogue Raisonné: U-95 as listed in Shiro Kasamatsu - The Complete Woodblock Prints, Dr. Andreas Gund, self-published by the author, 2001 |
8/20/2021
8/6/2018