TWO JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS COMMEMORATING FREDERICK STARR & NOSATSU.
Frederick Starr was a professor of anthropology at Chicago University who first visited Japan in 1904 and made many subsequent visits. He wrote many papers on Japanese subjects but is probably best known in Japan for his interest in pilgrimage, he dressed in traditional pilgrim’s clothing and performed the Shikoku pilgrimage in 1917 and 1921. ...click for details
A large print on handmade paper, no watermark, signed indistinctly F*** Koch. The artist has also included his seal and the limited edition information, 18/350. Going on the style I would guess that the print is from the first half of the 20th century and produced in Austria or Germany.
