Kyo no Izumi- Tea Shop at Nakaizumi
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
A tea shop at Nakaizumi along one of Japan's roads — the title's "Kyo no Izumi" suggesting a famous spring or well — presents an intimate street-level view of a roadside refreshment stop where travelers paused to drink tea and rest. Shotei renders the shop's interior glow visible through the noren curtains or paper screens, the narrow street scene capturing the domestic scale of old Japan's commercial life. The urban scene tags indicate this falls within Shotei's sustained documentation of surviving traditional commercial spaces.
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c. 1940
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Featured in Collections
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Frequently Asked Questions
Kyo no Izumi- Tea Shop at Nakaizumi was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Kyo no Izumi- Tea Shop at Nakaizumi was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Kyo no Izumi- Tea Shop at Nakaizumi depicts market scenes and food & drink.