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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Rice Planting |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 32027 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Kotozuka Japanese Rice Farmer Woodblock Print
Up for auction we have this gorgeous Japanese woodblock. It depicts a pastoral scene of Japanese rice farmers in the paddies planting that year's crop. There are homes and the village gate in the background. The colors are vivid and the details sharp. It is titled and signed(with seal too) on the bottom right hand corner. There is also a label on the back page of the folio - see pix. The visible image measures 15 3/4" x 10 3/4" and the outside dimensions are 18" x 12". The condition is great with no visible staining.
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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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