About This Print
A favorite of mine with an evocative title.  Takagi's colors perfectly fit this winter scene of three figures along a pathway leading to a torii and a small shrine.  A lone bird completes the silence of this scene.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #639 | 
| Title | People of the Snow Country (yuki guni no hito 雪国の人) | 
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| Artist 
 | Takagi Shirō (1934-1998) 
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| Signature 
 | Shiro Takagi in English in bottom margin 
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| Seal | not sealed 
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| Publication Date | 1978 
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| Edition | 25 of 120 
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| Publisher | self-published and printed 
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| Impression | excellent | 
| Colors | excellent | 
| Condition | excellent - minor toning 
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| Miscellaneous | 
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| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative prints) 
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| Format | 
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| H x W Paper | 23 1/4 x 16 5/8 in. (59.1 x 42.5 cm ) 
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| H x W Image | 20 3/4 x 14 1/4 in. (52.7 x 36.2 cm) 
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