Charcoal-making at Hino
by Ito Shinsui
- Date:
- 1939
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 24.9 × 37.2 cm
- Publisher:
by Ito Shinsui
Shinsui's extensive oeuvre spans bijin-ga, landscapes, and genre subjects. Auction averages over 12 months reflect healthy collector demand across all subject types.
The production of charcoal—a major rural industry in Japan's mountain villages—at the hill town of Hino in Shiga Prefecture provides an unusual industrial-craft subject for this 1939 print. Shinsui occasionally turned his landscape attention to scenes of human labor in natural settings, and the charcoal-making kiln, with its billowing smoke and smoldering wood, offered a subject quite different from the serene atmospheric landscapes that formed the majority of his non-[bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) work.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Charcoal-making at Hino was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1939.
Charcoal-making at Hino was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1939).
Charcoal-making at Hino depicts craftspeople and daily life.
Charcoal-making at Hino measures 24.9 × 37.2 cm (Oban format).
