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| Artist: | Ito Yuhan (1867-1942 Yoshihiko, Yasuhiko) — 伊藤 雄半 |
| Title: | Mt Fuji and lake (given title; official title unknown) |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Medium (this edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 40226 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Thursday, 1 September 2005
Yasuhiko Ito (1867-1942)
Description
A very nice and good quality Watercolour by a very well listed Japanese artist, it shows Mount Fuji in the distance, behind the trees with a lovely reflection in the water. It is signed lower left hand corner Y ITO and would date circa 1900.
Condition
Good untouched original condition.
Size and Frame
Image size is 12 1/2" x 19" and with frame and mount 19" x 25". The frame is original and picture is presented in the original gold mount, framers label verso Arthur Staples.
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| Artist Bio: |
Y. Ito or Ito Yoshihiku lived from 1867-1942. He studied first under Tamura Soritsu in Kyoto, graduated in 1888 from Kyoto Prefecture School of Painting and went to Tokyo to study under Koyama Shotaro briefly before entering Harada Naojiro's school, the Shobikan.
Ito Yuhan's painting style is always recognizable from across the room. He signed his watercolour paintings Y. ITO. He was a very successful landscape painter as well as a woodblock print artist. He created 12 woodblock images that were published by Nishinomiya Yosaku from the 1950's (not pre-war, according to the publisher Nishinomiya), signing them YUHAN. This painting is well done in a 'Western' painting style that started in the late 1880s when Japan opened its' doors to the West and its' teachers. The popularity of this style grew into the 'shin hanga' woodblock print movement at the beginning of the 20th century. His woodblock prints have either his signature in Western script ""Y Ito"" or in kanji. Those in Western script are the earlier (pre-war) editions.
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