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| Artist: | Torii Kotondo (1900-1976) — 鳥居言人 |
| Title: | Sash (Obi) - Version 1 — 帯 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1929/11 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1929 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Kawaguchi — 川口 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kawaguchi — 川口 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 36926 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Title: Obi Sash
limited edition.
Artist: Kotondo Torii 1900-1976
Description: "Obi" (Sash). This is the black kimono/cream mica background version. There is also a colour variant with a blue kimono and blue mica background.
A rarely seen beauty print by the Shin Hanga master Torii Kotondo.
Signature: Kotondo.
Seal: Artist's seal.
Dated: 1929.
Publisher: Kawaguchi.
Medium/Technique: Woodblock print.
Edition size: 350 (150?). There is rumour that a 200-print edition also exists but I suspect not, given that I have not seen a single copy.
Notes: Carver Ito. Printer Komatsu. The edition number in Japanese is on the verso.
This scene was also published in a chuban-sized format with slightly different carving by Bouni Ogino Fabric Shop (extremely rare).
Format: Dai-Oban
Width Item: 11.4 inches = 29.0 cm
Height Item: 17.8 inches = 45.3 cm
Width Image: 10.4 inches = 26.3 cm
Height Image: 16.1 inches = 41.0 cm
Literature Newland, Amy R.; and S. Hamanaka, "The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties", Leiden: Hotei, 2000, ISBN 90 74822 20 7, - Pg. 126, pl. 168-2 |
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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:
Artist: Kotondo Torii 1900-1976
Signature: Showa yonnen jugatsu Kotondo ga Showa 4
Publisher: Kawaguchi
Seal: Shi
Date: Showa 4 = 1929
Size: 29,6 x 46,5 cm
Format: dai-oban
Title: "Obi"
Sash
Numbered 145 of 350 on backside limited ed. - Sash
(Signature reads: November picture by Kotondo)
Impression: excellent/mint - , embossing, mica
Colors: excellent/mint
Condition: fine - , mica minimally rubbed from the middle towards the bottom at right side
Literature: Stephens, Amy Reigle, The New Wave - Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Bamboo Publishing Ltd.& Hotei-Japanese Prints, London / Leiden, England / The Netherlands 1993, ISBN=1-870076-19-2, Reference: no. 266-b
Stephens, Amy Reigle, The female image - 20th century prints of japanese beauties, Abe Publ. LTD and Hotei Publ., 2313 Leiden, The Netherlands 2000, ISBN=4-87242-141-8 C3071, Reference: no. 168-2
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| Artist Bio: |
| Torii Kotondo (or Torii Kiyotada VIII) is renowned for his paintings and shin hanga prints of beautiful women. His woodblock prints, superbly carved and printed, are comparable with those of Hashiguchi Goyo and Ito Shinsui. Kotondo was born with the name Saito Akira in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. He was the only son among the five children of Torii Kiyotada, the seventh Torii master. The Torii school had a long tradition of painting and printmaking for the Japanese theater, extending back to the seventeenth century. Kabuki theater was still very popular in the early twentieth century and prints and painted posters were the primary means of publicity. Although Kotondo was mainly interested in studying history and archaeology, it was assumed that he would follow in his father's footsteps and join the Torii school. At age 14, Kotondo agreed to leave school and begin studies with Kobori Tomone, a yamato-e painter. Along with painting classes, Tomone taught Kotondo about the court and military practices of ancient Japan, satisfying his interest in history. A year later, he was officially adopted as the next heir of the Torii school and assumed the artist's name 'Kotondo'. While still studying with Tomone, he began designing illustrations for a theatrical magazine, Engei Gaho ('Entertainment Illustrated Magazine'), and painted kabuki posters and billboards. Torii Kotondo was the 8th Torii and the 5th Torii Kiyotada. His father was the 4th Kiyotada.
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