Suma Beach
- Date:
- 1938
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 27.9 × 43.1 cm
- Publisher:
- Doi Sadaichi
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Koitsu's daytime landscapes and non-nocturnal scenes are less common on the primary market but still reflect his mastery of atmosphere and color. Values have risen steadily over the past decade.
Suma Beach west of Kobe on the Seto Inland Sea was associated in Japanese literary tradition with exile and melancholy — the place where the great lover Hikaru Genji spent his years of banishment in Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century novel. Koitsu's 1938 print renders the beach in a summer mood, the pine trees along the shore and the calm Inland Sea waters suggesting both the beauty and the loneliness that the tradition attached to the location. The print participates in a long line of artistic homages to Suma's literary resonance.
$486
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Suma Beach was created by Tsuchiya Koitsu (土屋光逸) in 1938.
Suma Beach was published by Doi Sadaichi (1938).
Suma Beach depicts seascapes.
Suma Beach measures 27.9 × 43.1 cm (Oban format).
