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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Stirring of Spring - Night Perfume — 春（梅） |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 (in the decade of) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Double Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Double Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 44848 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| For some reason Kawano titled this scene with two different (but related) titles: Stirring of Spring, and Night Perfume. Both titles represent the plum and cherry blossom season in March. Night Perfume is also the title of another Kawano print (in landscape format), so I'm assuming he swapped the titles by mistake, i.e., the scene pictured here should not be titled Night Perfume. |
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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:
Ross,
I found something interesting. I have attached a photo of ‘stirring of spring’ aka night perfume LE. Is the Kanji translation night perfume?
Chris. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Kaoru Kawano was a very popular artist, known for his distinctively styled depictions of figures, especially children. He uses the woodgrain patterns to render the textures and the mood to his works.
Double-oban-sized prints are almost always limited-edition lifetime strikes that are pencil-signed, editioned, and titled by Kawano himself. There are rare later editions that have stencilled titles, which I believe are posthumous strikes.
Large-oban-sized scenes with a pencil-signed signature (usually within the printed area) will be lifetime editions signed by the artist, while unsigned prints with a black round seal on the verso will be posthumous strikes.
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