About This Print
This 23rd print in the 36 print series depicts a lone cyclist making his way towards the end a concrete access route to Okitsu Beach. A lone car sits at the end of the access way and across Saruga Bay looms Mount Fuji. This print is the original issue (first edition between 1939-1940) published by Uchida Woodblock Printing Company 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 富士三十六景ノ内 Fuji sanjūrokukei no uchi (top right) | below series title 興津海岸の冨士 | below print title (Made by Tomikichiro) followed by round Kiwame censor's seal1 | bottom right | printed within image (Made by Tomikichiro) followed by, in seal form, Sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views) followed by, in seal form, Hanmoto Uchida (Publisher Uchida) |
Mt. Fuji from across Saruga Bay
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #775 |
| Title | Fuji from Okitsu Beach (also seen translated as "Fuji from the Okitsu coast") 興津海岸の冨士 Okitsu kaigan no Fuji |
| 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 |
| 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 | fair - heavy toning with mat line; small piece missing from top left margin; thinning in four places top margin from removal of tape; several small spots within image |
| Genre | shin hanga (new print) |
| Miscellaneous | print #23 in the series |
| Format | horizontal oban |
| H x W Paper | 11 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (28.6 x 41.9 cm) |
| H x W Image | 10 3/8 x 15 1/8 in. (26.4 x 39.1 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Indianapolis Museum of Art 1995.98.23 |
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