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| Artist: | Ito Yuhan (1867-1942 Yoshihiko, Yasuhiko) — 伊藤 雄半 |
| Title: | Kiyomizu Temple In Kyoto |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 (in the decade of) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Nishinomiya Yosaku |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Nishinomiya Yosaku |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 30989 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| English title taken from a publisher label. |
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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:
Japanese Woodblock Print
The artist is Ito Yuhan, and the publisher is Nishinomiya Yosaku
This is a lovely Japanese woodblock print of a house? Temple? On the side of a hill overlooking a valley with other buildings in the distance. It appears to be twilight and there is a lit lantern hanging outside. The print measures about 16" high x 10 3/4" wide and is a very pleasing composition. The print is signed in calligraphy and there are some printed marks down the left side margin. There is printing on the back that says 'Y. Nishinomi-yuki' & 'Kami Negishi' & 'Tokyo' - as well as we can make out. The print does have some foxing and some tape bleed-through at the upper corners, but matted properly, it would make a very striking image to decorate most any room.
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| Artist Bio: |
Y. Ito or Ito Yoshihiku lived from 1867-1942. He studied first under Tamura Soritsu in Kyoto, graduated in 1888 from Kyoto Prefecture School of Painting and went to Tokyo to study under Koyama Shotaro briefly before entering Harada Naojiro's school, the Shobikan.
Ito Yuhan's painting style is always recognizable from across the room. He signed his watercolour paintings Y. ITO. He was a very successful landscape painter as well as a woodblock print artist. He created 12 woodblock images that were published by Nishinomiya Yosaku from the 1950's (not pre-war, according to the publisher Nishinomiya), signing them YUHAN. This painting is well done in a 'Western' painting style that started in the late 1880s when Japan opened its' doors to the West and its' teachers. The popularity of this style grew into the 'shin hanga' woodblock print movement at the beginning of the 20th century. His woodblock prints have either his signature in Western script ""Y Ito"" or in kanji. Those in Western script are the earlier (pre-war) editions.
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