Een zeldzame 'pre-earthquake' crepe prent (chirimengami-e) van Takahashi Shōtei. Titel: "Bridge at Akabane in rain". (Akabane is een wijk in Tokyo.) Zegel in de linker benedenhoek: Shōtei. Kunstenaar: Takahashi Shōtei (Hiroaki) 高橋松亭 (1871-1945). Uitgever: Watanabe Shōzaburō 渡辺 庄三郎 (1885-1962). Jaar van uitgave: 'pre-earthquake', voor 1923 (Taishō 12). Catalogusnummer Shotei.com: M-78. Provenance: uit de collectie van een Zweedse marine-officier die in 1923 in Japan was gestationeerd. Formaat prent, incl. marge: 31 x 14,2 cm (hosoban). Formaat ondersteunend papier: 40,9 x 19,6 cm. Conditie: de crepe prent verkeert in zeer goede conditie. Kavel wordt met zorg verpakt en verzekerd met een track & trace code verstuurd. As part of the shin hanga or new prints movement in 1907 Takahashi Shōtei started designing for the S. Watanabe Color Print Co.. Shōtei was the first designer to be recruited into Watanabe's stable of artists. By 1923 Shōtei had produced nearly 500 designs for Watanabe, when Tokyo was hit by the Great Kanto earthquake. The fires ignited by the earthquake raged for three days and Watanabe's print shop and all the woodblocks created by Shōtei and the other early shin hanga artists were destroyed. After the disaster, Shōtei produced more prints for Watanabe, some of which were reproductions of the older images lost in the fires. Meer over crepe prenten (chirimengami-e 縮緬紙): https://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/topics_faq/faq_chirimen.html