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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Quiet Night by the Kamo River — 鴨川静夜 |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1950-1970 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 41131 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
木版画 「鴨川静夜」 琴塚英一 画
紙サイズ26×39センチ 版画サイズ24×36センチ |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Friday, 11 January 2008
This is a beautiful original color woodblock print, by noted Kyoto printmaker Eiichi Kotozuka. It measures about 9.5 x 14.5" (image) plus full margins. Published by Uchida. Very nice rich colors; excellent impression. Condition is excellent; it appears never to have been framed.
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| Artist Bio: |
KOTOZUKA, EIICHI was born in Osaka in 1906. He studied at the Kyoto Specialist School of Painting and in the late 1940s was one of the four artists who founded a co-operative publishing company called Koryokusha in an effort to gain an artistic expression free of the major houses. Tokuriki, Tobei and Tasaburo were the other three involved. He has created quite a number of woodblocks covering unique scenes of Japanese tradition, flowers, landscapes and wildlife. He was a member of the Seiryusha Group of Liberal Artists and Died in 1979.
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