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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Himeji Castle — 姫路城 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1956 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Baba Nobuhiko — 馬場信彦 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Baba Nobuhiko — 馬場信彦 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 30213 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Title Himeji Castle
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature Masamoto
Seal artist's seal
Dated 1956
Period Shin hanga
Publisher Baba Nobuhiko
Format Oban tate-e
Width 10.6 inches = 27.0 cm
Height 16.1 inches = 41.0 cm |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Sunday, 6 February 2005
Artist: MASAMOTO, Mori
Series: Publisher Baba Seizando
Title or Subject: Himeiji Castle
Signature or Seal: Signature
Date or Circa: 1956
Paper Size: 16 x 10 1/2 inches
Impression/Color/Condition: Good/Good/Good
Description: Good state |
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| Artist Bio: |
Mori Masamoto was a Japanese artist who was born in 1912. Little is known about Masamoto. He designed about 16 large-format shin-hanga landscape prints for Adachi Publishing in the 1950s, and about four oban-sized scenes for the publisher Baba Nobuhiko in the late 1950s after Baba re-established his publishing business after it was destroyed in world war 2. He also published at least 16 postcard-sized prints via Baba and perhaps other publishers. Masamoto's large-format shin-hanga scenes are beautifully rendered with wonderful attention to detail including masterful 'bokashi' colour graduation and often have subdued colour palettes . Woodblock prints by Masamoto are very rare, suggesting a single edition with small edition size for each scene (perhaps only 50 to 100 strikes per scene), and as a result are difficult to obtain.
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