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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Night Scene of Kiyamachi Street |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1950-1970 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 30462 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
THIS EXCEPTIONAL JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT is from the mid 1900's and was published by the Uchida Art Company, Ltd. of Kyoto. It is entitled NIGHT SCENE OF KIYAMACHI STREET and was done by Eiichi Kotozuka, regarded as a leading artist of landscape, flower, bird and figures. The image measures 10 1/4" by 15 3/4" and the page size is 12" by 17.5". In excellent condition(with strong bleed to the verso) and with its original title card from the studio in Kyoto.
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| Artist Bio: |
KOTOZUKA, EIICHI was born in Osaka in 1906. He studied at the Kyoto Specialist School of Painting and in the late 1940s was one of the four artists who founded a co-operative publishing company called Koryokusha in an effort to gain an artistic expression free of the major houses. Tokuriki, Tobei and Tasaburo were the other three involved. He has created quite a number of woodblocks covering unique scenes of Japanese tradition, flowers, landscapes and wildlife. He was a member of the Seiryusha Group of Liberal Artists and Died in 1979.
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