A fine 2 panel silk screen depicting Vessels in a harbor framed by a large shrine gate in heavy pigment, made for display in the 1933 Teiten National Exhibition (Now Nitten) by Amano Taiko (b. 1906) For references see the Nittenshi for that year, page 100. The dynamic scene shows what is likely a wharf at the River mouth in Nishinomiya, the artists home along the inland sea where lumber, bales and barrels of goods and people work on loading and unloading wooden ships. The Shrine Gate is paint ...click for details
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