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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Taiyubyo Nitenmon Gate in Spring — 大猷廟 二天門 |
| Series: | 4 Seasons of Nikko |
| Date of first edition?: | 1928/4 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1928 April (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Chuban
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| Format (this edition): | Chuban |
| DB artwork code: | 31511 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| This shrine is also called Taiyu-In (大猷院) and Taiyu-Inbyo (大猷院廟). |
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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:
GENUINE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
EIICHI KOTOZUKA
FOUR SEASONS OF NIKKO
Four oban size Tate-e (vertically aligned print) by Eiichi Kotozuka, engraved and printed by Uchida, with their original presentation box entitled FOUR SEASONS OF NIKKO:
Taikenbyo Nitenmon Gate in Spring
The Avenue of Ceder Trees in Summer
Kegon-no-taki Fall in Autumn
Five Storied Pagoda in Winter
Yumei Gate?? |
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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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