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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Lake Taisho in the Morning |
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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: | 39909 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Title Lake Taisho in the Morning
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature Title and date on the right margin.
Seal Artist's seal
Dated 1953
Publisher Adachi
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good
Colors excellent - very good
Condition very good … slight toning, slightly wrinkled, several needle size foxing on the margins, two tape residues from backside visible from the front on the top and the bottom margins.
Description "Taisho-ike no Asa" (Lake Taisho in the morning). In the morning mist, the ghostly remnants of the dead trees are sticking out from the water surface. This lake was made when Mt.Yake was erupted in 1915 (Taisho era). Its volcanic debris stopped Katsura River to form the lake.
Width Item 17.5 inches = 44.5 cm
Height Item 12.9 inches = 32.8 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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