Slanting Rays at Sunset (Shayô): The Park of Tokyo Imperial University

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Slanting Rays at Sunset (Shayô): The Park of Tokyo Imperial University

「斜陽」

Itô Takashi (Japanese, 1894–1982)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1923 (Taishô 12), February

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper

Dimensions 27 x 39.3 cm (10 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession Number59.843

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Smith, The J. Print since 1900 (1983), #9, photo p. 13

DescriptionMFA impressions: 54.1054 (brown), 55.76 (blue), 59.843 (black)
Sheet with title and other information adhered to back.
Edition: 88/100.

Signed Takashi saku (in block)
孝之作

ProvenanceBy 1959, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA; 1959, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 12, 1959)