About This Print

One of the artist's sosaku hanga prints depicting the drawbridge on Staalstraat, over Kloveniersburgwal, in the Centrum district of Amsterdam.  This print exists in at least two states, one of which is a numbered edition pictured in Tokuriki's book Wood-block Printing, show below, and the other this collection's print, either an artist's proof or unnumbered edition.  A recent photograph shows the bridge and buildings looking much the same as in Tokuriki's rendition of fifty years ago.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#625
Title	Drawbridge of Amsterdam (this edition untitled)
Series
Artist	Tokuriki Tomikichirō (1902-2000)
Signature	artist's "tomoe" signature carved in block upper right-hand corner and "T. Tokuriki" lower left hand corner.
Seal	none
Date	c. 1960s (undated)
Edition	unknown
Publisher	self-published
Printer	self-printed
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent
Genre	sosaku hanga (creative print)
Miscellaneous	artist's "tomoe" watermark in upper right-hand corner of sheet. Watermark is visible when held up to the light.
Format	non-standard
H x W Paper	10 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (27.6 x 30.2 cm)
H x W Image	8 7/8 x 10 3/8 in. (22.5 x 26.4 cm)
Collections This Print
Reference Literature	Wood-block Printing, Tomikichiro Tokuriki, Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd., 1968, p.96.