Yuki no nihonbashi (Nihonbashi under snow), Bannai Kokan, artist, 1931, Tokyo, woodcut, Bannai KÅkan (1900-1963) was a Tokyo painter and printmaker who studied painting under Bannai Seran (1881-1936), and inherited his name (he had previously been known as Sakauchi Hiroshi). As a print designer, he was one of the artists in the stable of the publisher Watanabe ShÅzaburÅ, and was part of the shin-hanga (modern print) movement that gave a highly successful lease of life to Japanese prints in the early to mid-20th century, perhaps even more to overseas markets than to Japan herself. This work was originally proposed for the series Fifty-three Modern Views of the Tokaido, but in the event, only three of them were published, including this delightful print, which would not look out of place reproduced on the cover of the New Yorker.
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