Shotei produced a wide range of subjects throughout his career under publishers Watanabe and Daikokuya. Signed, sealed lifetime editions consistently outperform unsigned export-market copies.
A figure — likely a woman — returns home through a landscape that suggests both arrival and the comfort of familiar places after a journey. The title "Kison" may refer to a place name or a poetic allusion, the specificity of the reference balancing the universality of the homecoming moment. Shotei renders the figure's return with the same quiet attentiveness he brought to all his figure-in-landscape compositions, the human presence completing the landscape rather than dominating it.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Coming Home - Kison was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Coming Home - Kison was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Coming Home - Kison depicts landscapes, figures, and travel scenes.
