Information
Date : 1924 - 27
Size : O-tanzaku (38.8 × 17.3cm)
Impression : Very good
Condition : Very good
Detail : -
The impressive scene of the person who is pulling the cart in the heavy rain and the warm orange light leaked from the restaurant in the night.
The gradation in the night sky gives a feeling of depth of the dark tone and it accentuates the deep black color of the trees.
This artwork had created since 1924 as a new Shinhanga after the Kanto earthquake. The printing block that was created before the earthquake doesn't exist. The impression and the condition are very good and are comparable to the museum book.
When Watanabe Shozaburo established his publishing company, firstly he asked Takahashi Shotei to create a design for Shinhanga, the new wave of Ukiyo-e. These prints became massively popular overseas, and the benefit became a foundation of creating the later well known Shinhanga prints.
They had created more than 500 Shinhanga works until the great "Kanto" earthquake disaster in 1923. The terrible fires burned out the all printing blocks, however, they recreated them with their passions, elaborately.