About This Print
One of twenty posthumous large-format prints created between 1978-19801 by the Kyoto publisher Kyoto Hanga-In, after earlier Yumeji illustrations. These large-format prints are part of the series titled Takehisa Yumeji moku-hanga shu 竹下夢二木版画集 (A Collection of Takehisa Yumeji's Pictures in Woodblock Print).Each print was packaged in an envelope along with an explanatory insert (see below) and a decorative protective sheet.
[Note: for photos of how each print is packaged by the publisher, Kyoto Hanga-in, see Waiting for Spring from the series A Collection of Takehisa Yumeji's Pictures in Woodblock Print.]
1 Daiwa Shinagawa, President of Kyoto Hanga-In, confirmed the publication date for this print as between 1978-1980 in response to my inquiry made on May 1, 2012. She also confirmed that the series consisted of 20 prints.
the right-most column of kanji characters reads:
新刻 (new carving) 未刊 (unpublished)
竹久夢二 (Takehisa Yumeji)
木版画集 (woodblock prints)
第九回頒布作品 (ninth distribution of works)
the next column over reads:
[白夜] Night Under the Midnight Sun
解説 小倉忠夫 Explanation by Ogura Tadao
(Note: I believe Ogura Tadao was the director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
The Original Painting
白夜 Byakuya
大正11年（1922）頃／絹本着色 (color on silk)
Yumeji Art Museum
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #827 | ||
| Title/Description | Night Under the Midnight Sun (Byakuya 白夜 ) | ||
| Series | Takehisa Yumeji moku-hanga shu 竹下夢二木版画集 (A Collection of Takehisa Yumeji's Pictures in Woodblock Print) | ||
| Artist | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) | ||
| Signature | Yumeji | ||
| Seal |
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| Publication Date | 1978-1980. Published posthumously after the original 1922 painting. | ||
| Edition | not numbered | ||
| Publisher |   Shinagawa seal (family name of publisher) | ||
| Carver |  (possibly the carver Endō Kōkyoku according to the article "Shin Hanga Carvers and Printers" and its accompanying table on the website http://shinhanga.net/Ac-p/c02.htm) Printer's name is identified in left column as: suru Itōtomo 摺 伊藤智 (possibly the printer Itō Tomorō b. 1933 and adopted by the printer Ito Toraji around 1957 according to the article "Shin Hanga Carvers and Printers" and its accompanying table on the website http://shinhanga.net/Ac-p/p05.htm) | ||
| Printer | see above | ||
| Impression | excellent | ||
| Colors | excellent | ||
| Condition | excellent | ||
| Genre | fukusei hanga | ||
| Miscellaneous |  第 回頒布作品 printed on verso of envelope containing print | ||
| Format | dai-oban | ||
| H x W Paper | 20 x 15 1/4 in. (50.8 x 38.7 cm) | ||
| H x W Image | 18 x 6 1/2 in. (45.7 x 16.5 cm) | ||
| Collections This Print | |||
| Reference Literature |
Shūjin yama iku
unread seal |  |  |  |  |