Tokuriki Tomikichiro (1902-1999) Japanese, Woodblock Print. Depicts a tall pagoda and complex against a lustrous blue sky. Signed in kanji in print bottom left. Label affixed to the back with information about the piece and artist, including the title: "Yasaka Pagoda."  

Overall Size: 14 x 13 1/8 in. 

Sight Size: 9 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. 

Tokuriki Tomikichiro was born in 1902 in Japan, the twelfth generation of a Kyoto artisan family designated the official Kyoto print artists for Honganji Temple. He graduated from Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1924, and after World War II he established the Matsukyu Publishing Company to produce and distribute his own prints and other shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga pieces. During the 1960s he held solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States, and became an influential figure in Japan’s contemporary print movement, commissioned for numerous temples throughout Japan, including the famous shrines at Ise. He eventually opened a studio to mentor a new generation of artists, including David Kelly and David Stones. He passed away in Kyoto in 1999, and his prints are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among many others. 

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