cat. 41. Portrait of Hagiwara Sakutarō
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Onchi Kōshirō 恩地孝四郎 (1891-1955)
Portrait of Hagiwara Sakutarō (Author of The Iceland) (Hyōtō no chosha [Hagiwara Sakutarō zō] 「氷島」の著者[萩原朔太郎像])
Date: 1943 (1949, second edition)
Signature: Onzi
Artist's seal: R
Publisher: Self-publishedThe first edition of Onchi's print was published in 1943 in honour of the poet and was released in a limited edition of eight. This print, the second edition, was released following the Second World War and printed in a limited edition of fifty from the original blocks by Onchi's student Sekino Jun'ichirō.