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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Flower |
| Series: | 50 Kinds of Flowers — もくはん自刻花五十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 20/01/1935 |
| 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: | 45366 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
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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:
From the second edition published in April 1936 (see the publisher notes image). The first edition was published in 1935.
Title : もくはん自刻五十題 Mokuhan Jikoku Gojudai
Author : Tokuriki Tomikichiro, Kamei Tobei, Kotozuka Eiichi
Date: 1936 昭和十一
Size : 43 cm (16.9 inch) x 31.5 cm ( 12.4 inch)
Picture Size : 29.5 cm (11.6 inch) x 22 cm ( 8.7 inch)
Folding case Size : 44 cm (11.6 inch) x 33 cm ( 8.7 inch) x 8cm ( 3.1 inch)
Total weight :6900g
Condition : Antique, There are stains,tears due to aging. Folding case has damages. |
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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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