Tuesday’s print: After yesterday’s profound downer, today is a day for simply a pretty picture. Tsuchiya Koitsu was a Japanese printmaker active at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. He was an important part of the Shin-Hanga movement–a sort of Ukiyo-e revival. (Ukiyo-e was the classical period of woodblock prints in Japan from late 17th to early 18th century. This style fell out of fashion from the mid 18th century until the Shin-Hanga period in the late 19th. Ukiyo-e literally means “floating world”, as the classical period included many pictures of a sensual lifestyle featuring courtesans. Shin-hanga just means “new prints”.) Koitsu was quite prolific , and I love many of his prints, so I had a hard time choosing one for today. He has done a number of moonlit scenes. In the end, I selected Moonlit Evening at Osaka Castle. I expect I will return to Koitsu and show some of his other lovely prints in the future.
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