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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Mount Asama in Kutsukake — 沓掛の浅間 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1952/12 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1952 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Adachi |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Adachi |
| 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: | 37771 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Title: Mount Asama in Kutsukake
Artist: Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature: Masamoto
Seal: red artist's seal
Dated: 1952 December
Publisher: Adachi
Technique/Medium: Woodblock print
Description Mt. Asama in the morning glow.
Format: large Oban yoko-e
Width: 17.5 inches = 44.5 cm
Height: 13.0 inches = 33.0 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:
Saturday, 28 May 2005
Title Mt. Asama
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature Masamoto
Seal artist's seal
Dated 1952
Publisher Adachi
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good
Colors good
Condition good … paper toning, slightly soiled, white ink specks on the sky, many foxing. (The slight vertical line on the sky is on the scanned image only. It is not on the actual print).
Description Mt. Asama in the morning glow.
Format Oban yoko-e
Width 17.5 inches = 44.5 cm
Height 13.0 inches = 33.0 cm |
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| Artist Bio: |
Mori Masamoto was a Japanese artist who was born in 1912. Little is known about Masamoto. He designed about 16 large-format shin-hanga landscape prints for Adachi Publishing in the 1950s, and about four oban-sized scenes for the publisher Baba Nobuhiko in the late 1950s after Baba re-established his publishing business after it was destroyed in world war 2. He also published at least 16 postcard-sized prints via Baba and perhaps other publishers. Masamoto's large-format shin-hanga scenes are beautifully rendered with wonderful attention to detail including masterful 'bokashi' colour graduation and often have subdued colour palettes . Woodblock prints by Masamoto are very rare, suggesting a single edition with small edition size for each scene (perhaps only 50 to 100 strikes per scene), and as a result are difficult to obtain.
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