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| Artist: | Ito Yuhan (1867-1942 Yoshihiko, Yasuhiko) — 伊藤 雄半 |
| Title: | Cherry Blossoms and Castle |
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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: | 36620 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Title Cherry Blossoms and Castle
Artist Yuhan Ito active 1930s
Signature Yuhan
Dated ca. 1950s
Publisher Nishinomiya Yosaku
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good
Colors excellent … fine gradations
Condition excellent - very good
Description Fine and slightly misty spring day at a castle. Cherry tree in full bloom decorates the wooden bridge over the moat.
Note Nishinomiya's copy right seal on the lower left margin
Format Oban tate-e
Width 11.0 inches = 28.0 cm
Height 16.1 inches = 41.0 cm |
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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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