Tsuchiya Koitsu, "Nio Gate, Asakusa"

An exceptionally scarce first-edition woodblock print by Tsuchiya Koitsu depicting the celebrated Nio Gate at Tokyo’s Asakusa Kannon Temple. In later postwar variants and re-carved editions, many of the figures were eliminated, the gate columns became noticeably narrower, and the overall composition was reduced in scale. Seldom seen in this edition, this work was acquired from a prominent Japanese collection of shin-hanga.

Date: 1934
Size: Oban
Edition: First-edition (Ikeda/Ichikawa)
Publisher: Doi Sadaichi
Condition: Light soiling, otherwise excellent color and condition
Frame Shown: 16" x 24", Classic Wood, Ebony

Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949) was a student of Kobayashi Kiyochika whose landscape prints are widely regarded and coveted by collectors today.