Ito Nisaburo: Ninnaji temple gate in snow

Colour woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 40 x 26 cm, good condition, framed.

Ito Nisaburo (1910-1988) is best known for the shin hanga woodblock prints he designed for the prolific Kyoto publishing house Uchida Publishing. But he was also a talented painter in a style that combined Western yōga and Japanese nihonga painting techniques.