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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | TAKAGAMINE ROAD IN KYOTO |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| 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: | 32612 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
TAKAGAMINE ROAD IN KYOTO, by Eiichi Kotozuka..a member of the Seriyusha Group of liberal artists and a leading artist for landscape, flower, bird and figure back in the mid-1900's. The image measures 10.5" by 15.5" and the page size is 12" by 17 3/4". It was published by the Uchida Art Co., Ltd of Kyoto, Japan. The woodblock is in excellent condition, in its original presentation folder and with the original gallery card about the artist and the title.
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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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