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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Cryptomerias Trees in Nikko — 日光杉並木 |
| Series: | 4 Seasons of Nikko |
| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| 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: | 42656 |
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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 Cryptomerias Trees in Nikko
Artist Eiichi Kotozuka 1906-1979
Seal Koto (hard to see. The seal is on the lower left area under the title).
Dated Ca. 1950s.
Publisher Uchida.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Very good … printed on a "Uchida" water marked paper.
Colors Very good … mostly black and white.
Condition Very good … paper toning, margins slightly creased, a vertical printer's crease or a paper irregularity on the upper margin and the lower margin, two thin areas on the right margin.
Description "Nikko Sugi Namiki" (The Avenue of Gigantic Cryptomerias, Nikko).
Format Dai-Oban
Width Item 11.6 inches = 29.5 cm
Height Item 17.7 inches = 45.0 cm |
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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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