Castle Fine Arts

Catalog ID	8517
Artist	Ishikawa Toraji
Title	Relaxing
Medium	Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title	Ten Types of Female Nudes
Edition	First, and only
Date	1935
Publisher	Ryoku-uso Gashitsu
Reference No	Female Image #243
Size	19 x 14 -5/8 "
Condition	Very fine. Never matted, framed or exposed to light.
Price	$4800.00
Shipping (US)	$29.00
Shipping (Non-US)	$68.00

Notes: Includes the original title slip.

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NEVER REPRINTED. SINGLE CARVERS SEAL - YAMAGISHI - IN LOWER LEFT MARGIN. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

A student of Koyama Shotaro, Toraji Ishikawa entered his paintings in several exhibitions of the Meiji Fine Arts Society. One of the founding members of the Taiheiyo Gakai in 1901, he traveled in Europe and the US in the early 1900s. He exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Toraji received the Imperial Award of the Japan Art Academy in 1950. His prints include Inland Sea Landscapes (1930s) and the series "Ten Types of Female Nudes" (1934).