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37494

Night snow at Fushimi

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Night snow at Fushimi
by Shoda Kakuyu (d. 1948)

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Artist: Shoda Kakuyu (d. 1948) 庄田鶴友
Title: Night snow at Fushimi
Series: 
Date of first edition?1935
Publisher (first edition)?Not Set
Publisher (this edition)?Not Set
Medium (first edition): Woodblock
Medium (this edition): Woodblock
Format (first edition): Aiban
Format (this edition): Aiban
DB artwork code: 37494
Notes (first edition)?
Title Snow in Fushimi
rare, exquisite
Artist Kakuyu Shoda 1879-1947
Signature Kakuyu
Seal Artist's seal
Dated 1914-1915
Medium/Technique Woodblock print

Description: Snow in Fushimi. Superbly printed with metallic gold pigment and hand sprayed gofun in imitating falling snow. Some of the trees in the background were hand painted with gofun to give a sense of the veil of snow in the distance. Very rare and exquisitely made.

Width Item 13.7 inches = 34.8 cm
Height Item 10.0 inches = 25.4 cm
Notes (this edition)?
The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:

Title Snow in Fushimi
rare, exquisite
Artist Kakuyu Shoda 1879-1947
Signature Kakuyu
Seal Artist's seal
Dated 1914-1915
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression excellent
Colors excellent - very good … white powder for the snow effect, gold pigments around the windows
Condition excellent - very good … slight paper toning, paper mounting residue on the back of the right edge.

Description: Snow in Fushimi. Superbly printed with metallic gold pigment and hand sprayed gofun in imitating falling snow. Some of the trees in the background were hand painted with gofun to give a sense of the veil of snow in the distance. Very rare and exquisitely made.

Width Item 13.7 inches = 34.8 cm
Height Item 10.0 inches = 25.4 cm

The artworks displayed on JAODB are not for sale.

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