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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Kurama Road |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Medium (this edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 43008 |
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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, 23 May 2011
Title Kurama Road
provenance: Uchida Family Archives
Artist Eiichi Kotozuka 1906-1979
Seal Artist's seal.
Dated Ca. 1930 - 40s.
Medium/Technique Watercolors and sumi on silk.
Colors Very good.
Condition Very good ... Slight foxing. The side edges are discolored. Binding holes on the side margins.
Description A striking painting on silk of a roadside of Kurama in a fine day after the snow. The title, and the artist's seal were written by the artist. This design was later published as a woodblock print.
It has been kept in the famous publisher in Kyoto, The Uchida, archives.
The final print version of this painting can be seen in the artelino archive, no.23427.
Note Uchida Han is an important Japanese publishing company with branches in both Tokyo and Kyoto. Founded in 1919, the company is still in existence today as an active publisher of shin-hanga in addition to publishing re-strikes of Edo period ukiyo-e prints. Uchida family has been a major force in introducing and promoting mainly major Kyoto school shin hanga artist such as Tokuriki Tomikichiro, Asada Benji, Ito Nisaburo, Hasegawa Konobu (Sadanobu), Eiichi Kotozuka and many others. The Kyoto Shin Hanga School probably offers the best value for money when purchasing shin hanga prints.
Width Item 15.7 inches = 40.0 cm
Height Item 10.4 inches = 26.3 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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