Tekiho, Imoto

This woodblock print is cataloged under Imoto Tekiho's name as its title, a convention that references the artist rather than the specific subject. Tekiho, whose art name combines characters suggesting skill and the phoenix, worked in a style that bridged traditional Japanese ink painting and the woodblock print medium. His subjects draw from the standard repertoire of East Asian nature painting, bamboo, mountains, lakes, birds, and horses, but his treatment brings a printmaker's precision to subjects that are more commonly associated with the freedom of brush and ink. The cataloging of this work under the artist's name rather than a descriptive title may indicate that the original title was not recorded when the print entered a collection or database.