Trawl Fishing on the Shore in Summer - Natsu no jibiki-ami 夏の地曳網. Original color woodblock print, published around 1920′s. Seal: Raizan. Publisher: Yoshikawa Kobunkan.
Raizan is an artist pseudonym for Kawatsura Yoshio, who was active as painter, graphic artist, plate carver and conservator. His in the 1920′s prints, for which he carved the block himself, are mainly landscape depictions with motifs from or around Tokyo and Osaka.
OBAN YOKO-E, 25 x 37,1 CM
From a Viennese private collection