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Beauty in the Snow
by Watanabe Tadahisa

	Artist:	Watanabe Tadahisa
	Title:	Beauty in the Snow
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	1891
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Seikodo (Seikoudou)
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Unknown — 不明
	Medium (first edition):	Lithograph
	Medium (this edition):	Lithograph
	Format (first edition):	Large Oban
	Format (this edition):	Large Oban
	DB artwork code:	40354
	Notes (first edition)?:
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Title Beauty in the Snow (Meiji Lithograph) Artist Tadahisa Watanabe active in 1890s Signature "Watanabe Tadahisa" printed as the artist on the lower margin Dated 1891 Publisher Seikyou-do Technique/Medium Lithograph Impression very good Colors good … hand colored lithograph Condition good … paper toned, slight wrinkles, a tear (ca. 2 inch long) from the bottom edge repaired. Description "Secchuu Bijin" (Beauty in the Snow). Lithograph enjoyed great popularity during Meiji era because of its ease for mass-production and strange realism it conveyed. It started to be widely used around 1880 with hand colored publications and quickly developed into multi-colored commercial applications replacing woodblock printing. Width 12.2 inches = 31.0 cm Height 16.6 inches = 42.2 cm