Niwa Temple Gate — 仁和寺山門
by Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-)
Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 | |
Title: | Niwa Temple Gate — 仁和寺山門 | |
Series: | 8 Kyoto Snow Scenes — 京都雪八景 | |
Date 1st edition?: | Not set | |
Publisher 1st edition?: | Uchida — 内田 | |
Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 | |
Medium (1st edition): | Woodblock | |
Medium (this edition): | Woodblock | |
Format (1st edition): | Oban | |
Format (this edition): | Oban | |
DB artwork code: | 42906 | |
Notes (1st edition)?: | ||
Notes (this edition)?: | The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Often written by non-experts, there may be inaccuracies: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 | |
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. |