Catalog ID: CFA5561
Artist: Tsuchiya Koitsu
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Evening
Edition: S. Watanabe Seal
Date: 1932
Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Reference No.: Walker: Fig. 4.4; pg. 168
Size: 10 -1/4 x 15 -1/2 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes: The construction of Osaka Castle started in 1583 on the former site of the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, which had been destroyed by Oda Nobunaga thirteen years earlier. Toyotomi Hideyoshi intended the castle to become the center of a new, unified Japan under Toyotomi rule. It was the largest castle at the time. The castle tower is surrounded by secondary citadels, gates, turrets, impressive stone walls and moats. The Nishinomaru Garden, encompassing the former "western citadel", is a lawn garden with 600 cherry trees, a tea house, the former Osaka Guest House.
Artist: Tsuchiya Koitsu
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Evening
Edition: S. Watanabe Seal
Date: 1932
Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Reference No.: Walker: Fig. 4.4; pg. 168
Size: 10 -1/4 x 15 -1/2 "
Condition: Very fine
Notes: The construction of Osaka Castle started in 1583 on the former site of the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, which had been destroyed by Oda Nobunaga thirteen years earlier. Toyotomi Hideyoshi intended the castle to become the center of a new, unified Japan under Toyotomi rule. It was the largest castle at the time. The castle tower is surrounded by secondary citadels, gates, turrets, impressive stone walls and moats. The Nishinomaru Garden, encompassing the former "western citadel", is a lawn garden with 600 cherry trees, a tea house, the former Osaka Guest House.