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Yoshiharu Tsuge Hand-Drawn Illustration “Mountain Gorge Hot Spring Inn”

Condition: /8 (very slightly stained)

Current Price	870,000 yen
Start Price	500,000 yen
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Time Left	3days17hrs
Start Time	2026/06/15 15:00:00
Live Time	2026/07/07 21:00:00 2026/07/07 05:00:00
Item Number	2636
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Item's Details

【Item No.】2636
【Item Name】Original Illustration by Yoshiharu Tsuge, “Mountain Gorge Hot Spring Inn”
【Size】166×270mm
【Notes】Illustrated on both sides
【Condition Details】8 (minor spotting)
【Minimum Bid Price】500,000 yen

【Comment】
This is an original hand-drawn work by manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge, who later established a singular creative world through surreal works inspired by dreams, as well as travel pieces filled with the atmosphere of secluded, rustic hot-spring inns.
Here, neither proper draftsmanship, the rules of reality, nor ordinary logic can be imposed; instead, only Yoshiharu Tsuge’s true spirit seems to be struggling to emerge. The image on the reverse side alone is an extremely pared-down fairy-tale scene, yet it also contains further touches intended to bring it closer to Tsuge’s inner landscape.
A hollow, sparsely laid-out detached house faces the road with its walls left open.
Within this drawing, one can glimpse a tradition rooted in Japan’s world of fantastical painting.
At this moment, Tsuge seems to have been standing at the threshold of the spirit realm once faced by Japan’s painters of old, by Osamu Tezuka, and by Shigeru Mizuki.
It is neither “Chagall, who expressed fantastical narrative,” nor Klee, who said, “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
Instead, a faint longing for a strange, distant world—found in the decaying houses among the fields of Shimo-Ishihara, Fuda, and Nishi-Chofu—was attempting, through Yoshiharu Tsuge’s subconscious, to make contact with another realm.

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