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| Artist: | Ito Yuhan (1867-1942 Yoshihiko, Yasuhiko) — 伊藤 雄半 |
| Title: | Fuji from Taganoura |
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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: | 35385 |
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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 is an genuine original Japanese woodblock print by great shin-hanga artist Yuhan Ito. Little reliable information is available about this artist, not even the year of his birth and death. Yuhan Ito made some beautiful landscape prints in Shin Hanga style in the 1930s. The prints were published by Nishinomiya Yosaku. This print titled "Mount Fuji from Tagonoura”. Early edition published in 30th. Mt. Fuji in faint red twilight is seen from Tagonoura which is not the lake but the Suruga Bay. Yuhan's prints do not have black keyblock outlines in order to simulate the soft water color looks. No date. Very rare.The print is not trimmed, has full margins. Signed by artist in the image Y.Ito in roman style (see the closeup). Oban size 15 3/4" x 11". Faded, some mattburn line. Slight tape residues on upper corners of the margins.
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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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