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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Masugata Tea Shop |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 |
| 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: | 42546 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Monday, 11 October 2010
Title Masugata Tea Shop
rare
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature 'Masamoto'.
Seal Artist's seal.
Dated 1950.
Publisher Adachi.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Excellent - very good.
Colors Excellent.
Condition Excellent - Very good ... Slight foxing on the margins. Upper left corner and the middle of the upper margin are pasted on the original presentation folder.
Description "Shinano Oiwake Masugataya". Masugata teashop Tsugaruya at Oiwake in Shinano province.
Width Item 17.9 inches = 45.5 cm
Height Item 13.4 inches = 34.0 cm
Width Mat 20.6 inches = 52.2 cm
Height Mat 14.9 inches = 37.8 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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