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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | House at Ikaruga- Nara Prefecture — 斑鳩の民家 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1951 |
| 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: | 39505 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Children on Stilts in front of Ikaruga Country Homes in Nara Prefecture by Mori Masamoto. Original Japanese woodblock print dated June Showa 26 (1951). Title and date in right margin. Very good condition. Washi toned and a few spots. Fine colors and impression. Strong texture and ink bleedthrough on fine washi. Masamoto characters and artist's seal in lower left of image. Adachi publisher's seal in bottom left margin. Print measures 13.1 x 17.8 inches. |
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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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