Portfolio includes two late editions, published by Gendai hanga center, 1976

This portfolio documents late editions of prints by Kogan Tobari (1882–1927), published posthumously by the Gendai Hanga Center in 1976. Tobari was a modernist printmaker active in the Meiji and Taisho periods who combined Western painting influence with traditional Japanese printmaking approaches, working in figurative and landscape subjects during the transition years of early twentieth-century Japanese art. The Gendai Hanga Center, a postwar institution dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Japanese printmaking, issued late editions of earlier artists' designs to serve collector and archival purposes, making works by figures like Tobari accessible to audiences who encountered them only through scholarship. The two prints included in this portfolio represent a curatorial selection from Tobari's graphic output, printed with documentation of their posthumous production context.