About This Print
This 31st print in the 36 print series, provides a view of Fuji beyond a bleak snow-covered street with only a trolley to be seen receding in the distance. This print is the original issue (first edition) published by Uchida Woodblock Printing Company between 1939 and 1940 as part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.The Series - Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Published by Uchida Bijutsu Shoten between 1939 and 1940, this 36-print set (plus an introductory sheet and a table of contents sheet) by Tokuriki Tomikichirō (1902-2000) is a more modern take on Hokusai's (1760–1849) famous series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1826-1833).Tokuriki's series was extremely popular with domestic and foreign buyers who purchased one thousand copies within a short time after issuance.1 Various prints from this series were re-printed in subsequent years and subsets of the thirty-six prints were repackaged into newly named series, such as Eight Views of Mount Fuji and Four Season of Mount Fuji, released in the 1950s. Later printings omit the information in the margin, modify Tokuriki's signature and change the seals below his signature appearing in the image area of the print.
1 Modern JapaneseWoodblock Prints - The Early Years, Helen Merritt, University of Hawaii Press, 1998, p. 89.
Format of Margin Annotations and Image Signatures and Seals of Original Edition
Source: Modern Japanese Prints: 1912-1989, Lawrence Smith, British Museum Press, 1994, p. 50.
top right series title富士三十六景ノ内 Fuji sanjūrokukei no uchi | below series title title of print 東京お茶の水乃雪晴 | below print title Tomikichiro Saku(Made by Tomikichiro) followed by round Kiwame censor's seal1 | bottom right Uchida Bijutsu Shoshi (Uchida Fine Art Shop) followed in seal form by Fukyo Fukusei (Reproduction forbidden) | printed within image Tomikichiro Saku(Made by Tomikichiro) followed by, in seal form, Sanjurokkei (Thirty-six Views) followed by, in seal form, Hanmoto Uchida (Publisher Uchida) |
Print Details
IHL Catalog | #415 |
Title | Clear Weather after Snow at Ochanomizu, Tokyo 東京お茶の水乃雪晴 Tokyo Ochanomizu no yukibare |
Series | Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji 富士三十六景ノ内 Fuji sanjūrokukei no uchi |
Artist | Tokuriki Tomikichirō (1902-2000) |
Signature | Tomikichirō saku 富吉郎作 |
Seal | no artist's seal (see above for information on various seals in margin and image) |
Date | 1939-1940 |
Edition | original (first) edition |
Publisher | Uchida Bijutsu Shoten - Hanmoto Uchida (on print); Uchida Bijutsu Shoritsu han and Reproduction not permitted on margin |
Impression | excellent |
Colors | excellent |
Condition | good - light foxing mainly in margins; two spots top corners verso from previous folio mounting; folds lower right margin |
Genre | shin hanga (new print); fūkeiga |
Miscellaneous | print #31 in the series |
Format | horizontal oban |
H x W Paper | 11 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (28.9 x 41 cm) |
H x W Image | 10 3/8 x 15 in. (26.4 x 38.1 cm) |
Collections This Print | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 56.249 |
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