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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Bird and Flower |
| Series: | 50 Kinds of Flowers — もくはん自刻花五十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 20/01/1935 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 1936 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Unsodo — 芸艸堂 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Unsodo — 芸艸堂 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Aiban
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| Format (this edition): | Aiban |
| DB artwork code: | 42960 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| The first edition of this series of 50 prints appears to have been sold to subscription buyers via periodic sets of five prints (perhaps each month). With the completion of subscription purchases a second edition of all 50 scenes was then published in April 1936. Subscription sales were a very common method of selling large print series. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Monday, 2 May 2011
Title Bird and Flower
first edition printing
Artist Eiichi Kotozuka 1906-1979
Seal "Koto".
Dated 1936.
Publisher Unsodo.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Very good ... Ffirst edition printing, self-carved by the artist.
Colors Excellent - very good ... Silver mica.
Condition Very good ... Slight toning. Slight foxing and slight creases. A tear, about 1cm long, on the bottom right edge.
Description "Hana Goju Dai no Uchi" (Fifty Kinds of Flowers). From the series of flowers by Kyoto artists published by Unsodo.
Width Item 9.9 inches = 25.2 cm
Height Item 13.8 inches = 35.0 cm |
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| Series Information: |
| The first edition of this series of 50 prints appears to have been sold to subscription buyers via periodic sets of five prints (perhaps each month). With the completion of subscription purchases a second edition of all 50 scenes was then published in April 1936. Subscription sales were a very common method of selling large print series. |
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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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