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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Kyokochi Pond (Kinkakuji Temple) — 鏡湖地畔（きょうこち） |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1950-1970 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 44789 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
This is an obviously rare (one of a kind) trial print of the corresponding watercolour base sketch (genga) that you can find elsewhere in my collection. Uchida's intention was probably to issue this scene as woodblock prints mounted to scrolls. In the end Uchida published this scene as double-oban-sized woodblock prints for framing (although they are also very rarely seen). |
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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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