About This Print
The most common English translation I've seen for this print, the 25th in the 36 print series, is "The Beach of Satta-Tōge" but, I think, a more accurate translation might be the "The Coast (or beach) Below Satta-Tōge," as "Satta Tōge" is a reference to a high pass slightly inland from Saruga Bay. Anyway, the view drawn by Tokuriki Tomikichirō (1902-2000) is similar to the below Hiroshige (1797–1858) print The Sea off Satta, Saruga Province from his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji , 1858. While Tokuriki has given us slightly smaller waves, his debt to his ukiyo-e predecessors is evident.
"The Satta Pass and the wild sea below it was a well-known location on the Tokaido highway. This main route along the eastern seaboard of Japan connected Edo (modern Tokyo) and Kyoto. The pass was created in 1655 to improve the road at this point. Mount Fuji can be seen rising majestically in the background."
This Tokuriki print is the original issue (first edition) published by Uchida Woodblock Printing Company between 1939 and 1940 as part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series.
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 | below series title 薩陀峠海岸 | 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, Sanjurokkei (Thirty-six Views) followed by, in seal form, Hanmoto Uchida (Publisher Uchida) |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #419 |
| Title | The Coast Below Satta Tōge 薩陀峠海岸 |
| 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 | good |
| Condition | fair - mat line and heavy toning within mat line; two spots top corners verso from previous folio mounting |
| Genre | shin hanga (new print) |
| Miscellaneous | print #25 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 38.4 cm) |
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