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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Niwa Temple Gate — 仁和寺山門 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1954 (prior to) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Postcard
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| Format (this edition): | Postcard |
| DB artwork code: | 44015 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1950'S JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT. Dated 1954. A Christmas Greeting card with the print loosely attached to the front. It is worthy of framing. A personalized handwritten greeting is on the interior of the card. In very good condition and colors are still clear. See photos.
Card front measures 4 1/2 in. by 6 in.
Print measures 3 5/8 in. by 5 in. |
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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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