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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Lake Chuzenjiko in Autumn — 中禅寺湖 |
| Series: | 4 Seasons of Nikko |
| Date of first edition?: | 1928/4 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1928 April (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Chuban
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| Format (this edition): | Chuban |
| DB artwork code: | 38081 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Sunday, 24 July 2005
WOOD-BLOCK PRINTINGS
"FOUR SEASONS OF NIKKO"
Engraved and Printed by
Uchida Woodblock Printing Co., Ltd.
Marutamachi St., Kawaramachi-nishi.
Kyoto, Japan
The Sambutsudo Temple in Spring
The Yomeimon Gate in Summer
Lake Chuzenjiko in Autumn
The Shinkyo Bridge in Winter
Each print measures 10 by 7 3/8 inch and is placed in a paper folder. The paper folders have yellowed and faded. The four prints are in a cardboard folder which has kept them flat and in excellent condition. |
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| Artist Bio: |
KOTOZUKA, EIICHI was born in Osaka in 1906. He studied at the Kyoto Specialist School of Painting and in the late 1940s was one of the four artists who founded a co-operative publishing company called Koryokusha in an effort to gain an artistic expression free of the major houses. Tokuriki, Tobei and Tasaburo were the other three involved. He has created quite a number of woodblocks covering unique scenes of Japanese tradition, flowers, landscapes and wildlife. He was a member of the Seiryusha Group of Liberal Artists and Died in 1979.
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