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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Himeji Castle |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1952 |
| 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: | 38478 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 7 October 2005
Title Himeji Castle
Large format
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature Masamoto
Seal artist's seal
Dated 1952
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent
Colors good
Condition good … paper toning, a pin size hole on the upper left margin corner, brown discoloration on the lower right margin corner, mottled toning on the sky, two foxing on the right upper area on the sky.
Description "Himeji-jo, Dai tenshu" Majestic main building of Himeji Castle stands quietly in the afternoon sun.
Width 17.1 inches = 43.5 cm
Height 22.2 inches = 56.5 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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