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| Artist: | Oda Kazuma (1882-1956) — 織田一麿 |
| Title: | The Great Bridge at Matsue |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1924 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 35785 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Sunday, 14 January 2007
Artist ODA, Kazuma (1881-1956)
Title "Matsue Bridge in Snow"
("Matsue Ohashi")
Date 1924. Original edition (of 300 impressions).
Series na
Publisher na
Seal, Carver/Printer na
Image Size 9 1/4 x 14 1/4
Impression Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading; deep, heavy "gauffrage" to snow-covered mountains (see last image); crisply detailed lines.
Condition Excellent. Excellent colors; clean backside; full margins. (No condition problems--flawless.)
Reference/Illus "The New Wave" pl# 141; Blair "1930 Toledo Exhibition" #167.
Comments Beautiful wintertime snowscene with deep "gauffage." Very rare, classic "shin hanga" image, in unusually superb condition. Matsue was the bitterly cold wintertime home of Lafcadio Hearn on Japan's northern coast.
Item # CG-961
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| Artist Bio: |
ODA KAZUMA
Many artists of the first half of the 20th century drifted back and forth between the two poles of sôsaku-hanga and shin-hanga. Oda Kazuma was an artist who was able to produce notable works by both means; that is, with a publisher or independently. Born in Tokyo, he studied Western-style painting with Kawamura Kiyoo (1899-1934) and lithography with Kaneko Masajirô. Kazuma worked primarily as a lithographer, but he was also an ukiyo-e enthusiast, publishing two books on the subject. He was a contributor to Hôsun ca. 1909-11, an art magazine co-founded by Ishii Hakutei (1882-1958); a founding member (and only lithographer) of Nihon Sôsaku-Hanga Kyôkai (Creative Print Society) in 1918; Yôfû Hangakai (Western Style Print Society) in 1930; and Nihon Hanga Kyôkai (Japan Print Association) in 1931. And yet, with all his sôsaku-hanga associations, in the 1920's he designed six shin-hanga type woodblock prints published by Watanabe. This print is an example of his self-carved and self-printed works. -- Scholten Gallery
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