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.
Tagonoura — the bay at the foot of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture — was immortalized in an eighth-century Manyoshu poem as the place from which Fuji's snowfall could be seen drifting down. The bay's name had carried literary and artistic weight for over a millennium when Shotei composed this print, and his treatment negotiates between the location's topographic reality and its enormous cultural freight. The bay's curve, the fishing boats, and the mountain above them form a composition as inevitable as the poetic tradition it participated in.
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.
Tagonoura was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
Tagonoura was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Tagonoura depicts landscapes, seascapes, and mount fuji.
