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Shotei (aka Hiroaki) (1871 - 1945)

Nikko Shirakumo Waterfall

Medium: Woodblock Print
Date: c. 1930
Size (H x W): 14.75 x 6.75 (inches)
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo
Seals: Shotei
Condition: Very good color and impression, light soiling and wear, nicks and faint toning on margins.
$1,600.00

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About the artist

Born in Tokyo as Katsutaro Takahashi, Shotei (aka Hiroaki/ Komei) was in his mid-teens when he began to work in the design department of the Imperial Household Agency. He studied Nihonga, or Japanese-style painting, under his uncle Fuko Matsumoto, but also worked as an illustrator for periodicals and textbooks. Beginning in the early Taisho period, Shotei regularly collaborated with the prominent Shin Hanga publisher Shozaburo Watanabe. Shotei used a variety of signatures. Many of his large landscape prints and bijin-ga are signed 'Hiroaki,' while ‘Shotei’ appears on other works. Shotei was a productive shin-hanga artist, completing around five hundred designs by the time he was fifty. Unfortunately, many of Shotei's prints were destroyed by the fire that raged in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923. Despite this tragedy, he continued to work as a printmaker until his death in 1945.