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Ito, Takashi (1894 - 1982)

Dawn at Takegawa

Medium: Woodblock Print
Date: July 1932
Size (H x W): 15.3 x 10.25 (inches)
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Seals: Ito Takashi, 6mm Watanabe circular seal
Edition: Postwar
Signature: Takashi (ink)
Condition: Good color and impression, faint mat mark on margins, faint creasing near top and bottom edges, tape on reverse top edge.

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About the artist

Takashi Ito was born in near Hamamatsu in 1894. He began his career as a painter, studying Japanese-style painting with Kiyokata Kaburagi and Yuki Somei, and as a student at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. As a printmaker, Takashi Ito is known for a collection of landscape prints that he completed between 1922 and the 1930s for the famous publisher Shozaburo Watanabe.