About This Print
One of 24 prints from a series of ōgi fan-shaped images of scenic places in the Kyoto area during the four seasons, with each season being represented by six prints. Each image is printed on a decorative background with floral motifs printed in silver mica. This print is part of the Kyoto in Autumn set and pictures Tsuten Bridge and Kaisandō, which serves as the mausoleum of Tofukuji's first head priest, in the driving rain.Tsuten-kyo and Tofuku-ji
"This temple is the head temple of the Tofukuji School of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. It was built in 1236 on the instructions of Kujo Michiie, the great statesman of the Kamakura period, who desired to build in Kyoto a temple complexes in Nara. Even its name, Tofukuji, is a combination of one character from the names of each of these Nara temples. Its original buildings were burned but were rebuilt in the 15th century according to the original plans. About this time it flourished as one of the Five Great Temples of Kyoto. Its many compounds and sub-temples survived the ravages of war and fire until the late Meiji period when the Butsuden (Buddha hall) were burned. However, it even now retains the magnificent scale characteristic of a medieval Zen temple."
The Series - Kyoto in the Four Seasons
Kyoto in Winter 冬の京都より
Kyoto Kaomise 京の顔見世Atoyama Shrine 愛宕山神社
Daitoku-ji Snow Scene 大徳寺雪景
Early Spring in Inariyama 稲荷山早春
Kinkaku-ji Snow Scene 金閣寺雪景
Kyoto Imperial Palace in Snow 京都御所乃雪
Kyoto in Spring 春の京都より
Kōetsu-ji Takagamine in Spring 鷹ヶ峰光悦寺乃春
Kamigamo Shrine in Spring 上賀茂社乃春
Cherry Blossoms at Omuro 御室の桜
Cherry Blossoms at Gokoku Shrine 護國神社の桜
Kitano Shrine Early Spring 北野神社早春
Arashiyama Spring Scene 嵐山春景
note: I have not found the sixth print in this set
Kyoto in Summer 夏の京都より
Mibu Kyōgen 壬生狂言
Onshi Nijō Castle 恩賜ニ篠城
Gionsai Yoiyama 祗園祭宵山
Kurama-dera in Early Summer 鞍馬寺の初夏
Diamonji 大文字
Heian-jingū 平安神宮
Kyoto in Fall 秋の京都より
Kōdai-ji Temple, Hagi 高台寺の萩
Tsuten-kyo Autumn Leaves 通天橋の紅葉
Tō-ji Harvest Moon 東寺名月
Red Maples at Takao 高雄紅楓
Sanjūsangen-dō 三十三間堂
Kiyomizu-dera Autumn Colors 清水寺 秋色
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2419 |
| Title | Tsuten-kyo Autumn Leaves 通天橋の紅葉 |
| Series | Kyoto in Autumn 秋の京都より |
| Artist | Tokuriki Tomikichirō (1902-2000) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | 徳力 Tokuriki (see oval seal above) |
| Date | 1942 昭和17 |
| Edition | original (first) edition |
| Publisher |  Uchida Art Bookstore 版元 内田美術書肆 Uchida Bijutsu shoshi Note: right column of seal reading 作者徳力富吉郎 (artist, Tokuriki Tomikichirō) is trimmed from this print |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | shin hanga (new print); fūkeiga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | horizontal ōban |
| H x W Paper | 9 13/16 x 17 1/2 in. (24.9 x 44.5 cm) |
| H x W Image | 8 1/4 x 17 (21 x 43.2 cm) |
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