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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Sacred Bridge, Nikko |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1953 |
| 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: | 38676 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Original Mori Masamoto (1912 - ?) Japanese Woodblock Print
Title: Sacred Bridge, Nikko, 1953
Publisher - Adachi, with red seal in left margin
Image Size - 16 3/4" x 12 1/4" + margins
Note: Most examples scene in the market have the fugitive green inks of the grass and tree foliage faded to a blue hue. See the left edge of JAODB no. 38676 for an example with unfaded greens. |
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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:
Tuesday, 15 November 2005
ARTIST: Signature not read
SERIES: Publisher Adachi
TITLE or SUBJECT: Shinkyo, Nikko
SIGNATURE or SEAL: Pencil signature and seal
DATE or CIRCA: 1953
PAPER SIZE: 17 1/2 x 13 inches
IMPRESSION/COLOR/CONDITION: Good/Fair/Good
CONDITION DETAILS: Tape remnants corner verso, mat fade line 1/4 inch into image, light wear and soiling
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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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