About This Print
"The prints in Yumeji masterpieces highlight Yumeji's skillful treatment of the landscape genre. Tranquil, bucolic scenes such as this illustrating a hamlet nestled along a bay were a frequent them in Yumeji's art, and it could be conjectured that it conveyed a sense of nostalgia for his native Okayama or the port city of Kobe where he briefly spent time during his childhood."
Source: Takehisa Yumeji, Nozomi Naoi, et. al., Brill, 2015, p. 133, p. 135.
"The majority of Yumeji’s woodblock-printed designs were released after his death in 1934. The publisher who was instrumental in having Yumeji’s work recognized was the Tokyo-based Katō Junji (1885-1961). During the late 1930s and early 1940s. Katō and his team of artisan block-cutters and printers at the Katō Print Workshop (Katō Print Workshop) (Katō Hanga Kenkyūjo) reused and recalled numerous famous paintings, music scores and watercolours for series of prints and postcards."
"The thirty woodblock prints in this set are a selection of the most popular cover designs from the over 270 that the artist produced of Seno music scores. Katō Junji personally compiled the set and it reflects what he believed was representative of Yumeji’s artistic diversity, ranging from the portrayal of beautiful women and landscapes to this fascination with Western artistic styles."
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1575; #1621 |
| Title | Day In, Day Out, at a Bay [alternate translation: Timeless Bay] Ura no Akekure 浦のあけくれ - as written in the top of the left margin |
| Series | Yumeji’s Masterpieces 夢二名作集 Yumeji meisakushū |
| Artist | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) |
| Signature | not signed |
| Seal | not sealed |
| Publication Date | originally 1938-1939 |
| Edition | unknown - prints from the series were reprinted an unknown number of times during the life of the publisher |
| Publisher | Katō Junji 加藤潤二 [Katō Hanga Kenkyūjo] copyright owned by Hanken shoyū Katō Junji 版権i所有 加藤潤二 - as printed in left margin |
| Impression | #1575 and #1621: excellent |
| Colors | #1575 and #1621: excellent |
| Condition | #1575: excellent - several imperfections in original paper #1621: excellent - two mounting remnants top margin verso |
| Genre | fukusei hanga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | ōban |
| H x W Paper | #1575: 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm) #1621: 13 x 10 1/16 in. (33 x 25.6) |
| H x W Image | #1575: 11 15/16 x 8 3/4 in. (30.3 x 22.2 cm) #1621: 11 15/16 x 8 3/4 in. (30.3 x 22.2 cm) |
| Collections This Print | |
| Reference Literature | Takehisa Yumeji, Nozomi Naoi, et. al., Brill, 2015, fig. 1.5, p. 14. |
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