Tsuchiya Koitsu Giclée Repro Print Lake Ashi Hakone Hills 1938 6.5x10" Kodansu Date: 1873 (Meiji 6)

Date: 1873 (Meiji 6)

The tokkuri (徳利) is among the most ubiquitous ceramic forms in Japanese material culture — a narrow-necked stoneware bottle produced in vast quantities from the Edo period onward for the storage

keyaki drawer faces show natural figuring and minor age marks

Japanese Imari blue and white porcelain tokkuri-form altar offering vessel (butsugu)

and subtle mica highlights create a luminous

Tsuchiya Koitsu Giclée Repro Print Lake Ashi Hakone Hills 1938 6.5x10" Kodansu Date: 1873 (Meiji 6)Tsuchiya Koitsu (, 18701949) Lake Ashi in the Hakone Hills in Early Autumn (, Hakone Kosui) archival giclee reproduction Contemporary reproduction after original woodblock print, 1938 From the south shore of Lake Ashi (Ashinoko), Fuji rises in full autumn splendor its snow capped summit flushed pink at dawn above a sweep of deep blue water. A lone sailboat crosses the lake's center. In the right foreground, a tall cryptomeria pine and autumn colored