Fine impression, slight yellowing, ink stains on the outer left and right edges.
Ca.1970/80

Mount Hiei (Hiei-zan) is a mountain northeast of Kyoto, located on the border between Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan. Enryaku-ji Temple, the first of the Japanese Tendai (Chin. Tiantai) branch of Buddhism, was founded atop Mount Hiei by Saichō in 788 and quickly grew into a vast complex of temples and buildings.

Tomikichiro Tokuriki was a Japanese woodblock printmaker, representing the twelfth generation of a family of Kyoto artisans. He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1924. After World War II, he founded the Matsukyu publishing company to produce and distribute his own prints as well as Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga works by other artists. Tomikichiro Tokuriki was an influential figure in the contemporary print movement in Japan. He was the official artist of the Honganji Temple and was commissioned to engrave various temples throughout Japan, including the famous shrines of Ise. His prints are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.