A Great Japanese Woodblock Print Ito Shinsui LIMIT Number Watanabe Printmaker Sakura Lineage Shinano (Shinshu)Ten Beautiful Views

This is a Great LIMITED-EDITION (21/195) very beautiful, and special Japanese woodblock print “Sakura Lineage” from the famous series “Shinano (Shinshu) Ten Beautiful Views” signed by the famous Taisho/Showa Shin Hanga woodblock print master Shinsui Ito (1898-1974) 1st published by the famous Hanga printmaker Watanabe in January Showa 23, which is 1948 IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.  This woodblock print is made from original blocks by Watanabe printmaker, but it may be a posthumous edition in 1990s.  This woodblock print is one of the seventy-year collections of a large number of gorgeous, different-styled Asian art and Japanese woodblock prints from my family.  Ito Shinsui belongs to the great masters of the Shin Hanga movement.  In 1952 the Japanese government declared his artwork an intangible national treasure, the highest public award a Japanese artist could achieve.  The size of this ORIGINAL woodblock print is 15 3/4 x 11 inches. The artist’s signature and his chop mark are at the low