Lot 341
URUSHIBARA MOKUCHU (JAPANESE, 1888-1953)
STONEHENGE BY MOONLIGHT
Auction: 15 May 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
漆原木虫 巨石陣 彩色木板印刷
colour woodblock print, view of Stonehenge looking east toward the circle of sarsen stones with lintels, night time with moon overhead, seal and character marks lower left, published by Ken Hoshino & Co., 57-58 Chancery Lane, W.C.
Dimensions
24.7cm x 37cm
Provenance
Private English collection
英格蘭私人收藏
Footnote
Urushibara Mokuchu (1888–1953), given name Yoshijirō, was a Japanese print maker known for his many black-and-white prints of horses. He travelled to London and was among a group of woodblock print craftsmen who demonstrated printing techniques at the Japan-British Exhibition (日英博覧会, Nichi-Ei Hakuran-kai), which took place at White City, London, from 14 May 1910 to 29 October 1910. He remained in London after the exhibition, restoring prints, making reproductions of prints, and mounting scrolls at the British Museum. In 1912, the British Museum employed Urushibara to make accurate copies of a famous Chinese scroll painting by Gu Kaizhi (c. 344–406 AD), the Admonitions Scroll.
Another closely comparable print is in the collection of the British Museum, registration number: 2003,0820,0.6, which has been exhibited in the British Museum Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present' during 2015 April-October.