Title: Okuno-Hoshomichi Shirakawano-seki Fukushima
Artist: Saito, Kiyoshi, 1907-1997
Edition: 16/150 Date: 1965
Medium: woodblock
Dimensions: 15 x 12 5/8 inches
It seemed a very strange coincidence that I should be looking at auction items today and that I should come across this woodblock print of Okuno-Hoshomichi, and in this particular image, the path is to a shrine in Fukushima, the site of the damaged nuclear reactor.
"It was as if the very soul of Japan had itself written it".
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