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| Artist: | Ito Yuhan (1867-1942 Yoshihiko, Yasuhiko) — 伊藤 雄半 |
| Title: | Avenue of Cryptomeria in Nikko |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 (in the decade of) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Nishinomiya Yosaku |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Unknown — 不明 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 36040 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Title Avenue of Cryptomeria in Nikko
Artist Yuhan Ito active 1930s
Signature Yuhan.
Dated Ca. 1950s.
Publisher Nishinomiya Yosaku.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Description "Nikko Sugi Namiki" (Avenue of Cryptomeria). The dappled sunlight cast pools of sunspots through the dense canopy of ancient cryptomeria trees.
Format Oban tate-e
Width Item 10.8 inches = 27.5 cm
Height Item 16.1 inches = 41.0 cm |
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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:
Ito, Yuhan- Unknown- Forest Path- Full0.jpg:
ITO YUHAN Japanese Woodblock Print FOREST shoson shotei
"Forest Path"(???)
This is a One-Owner Collection, made up of many different artists. The woodblocks were collected from the early 1940's to 60's by an American woman who ran nursing schools in Asia. She passed away last year at the tender age of 94!
She took great care to pick out the best in color and sharp impressions for each image. We cannot stress strongly enough how very bright and crisp the colors are, our photography does not do them justice. Most of the prints have never been exposed to light as they were stored in a vulcanized travel trunk in the hall closet! They are in pristine condition for their age.
These wood block prints have never been framed or glued down - they're just lightly tacked down at 2 corners.
These exceptional Ito Yuhan prints are oban size ( about 14 3/4" x 9 3/4"). They all have something written in Japanese characters down the lower left margin. No rips, tears, toning, foxing, etc etc.
$380, 2004
Nishinoniya Yosaku
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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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