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46168

The Current Style

The Current Style 時局調
by Ofude Toshio (a. 1930s)

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Artist: Ofude Toshio (a. 1930s) 大筆龍夫
Title: The Current Style (given title; official title unknown) 時局調
Series: 
Date of first edition?10/05/1938
Publisher (first edition)?Ukiyo-e Dosokai 浮世絵同好会
Publisher (this edition)?Ukiyo-e Dosokai 浮世絵同好会
Medium (first edition): Woodblock
Medium (this edition): Woodblock
Format (first edition): Koban
Format (this edition): Koban
DB artwork code: 46167
Notes (first edition)?
A rare kuchi-e featuring a bijin with "moga' hairstyle, from the pre-war magazine Ukiyo-e Kai, produced via the kappa-zuri (合羽摺り) technique.

Kappazuri, also known as kappa-zuri, kappazuri-e, and as katagamizuri-e, are Japanese prints printed in a single color (usually black) from woodblocks and then colored by stenciling. Prints produced entirely by stenciling, without woodblocks, are also called kappazuri. Kappazuri may be identified by the presence of visible brushstrokes, unevenness of color, pooling of ink at the margins of the stencil cutouts, and gaps or overlaps between colored areas and black outlines.
Notes (this edition)?
The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:

「浮世絵界 三巻五号」

昭和13年 浮世絵同好会
23.4cm×16.0cm 表紙痛み破れあり

Artist Bio: 
Ofude was a bijin-ga artist of the 1930s. He is most noted for a series of six prints of Moga bijin. His prints are very rare.
1928(昭和 3)年 5 月の造形美術協会第 1 回展に《風景》 2 点(油彩画か)、同年 11 月の第 1 回プロレタリア美術 大展覧会に《長崎村の農民》《同志の顔》(油彩画か)を「大 筆敏夫」の名でそれぞれ出品。その後、加藤版画研究所 (1929 設立)より版画集『モダンガール』(10 点組 刊 行年不明)を刊行。1938 年 4 月の造型版画協会第 2 回 展に「大筆龍夫」の名で《町の風俗》(合羽版か)を出品。 出品時の住所は東京。また、同年 5 月の『浮世繪界』(第 3 巻第 5 号)の口絵に合羽摺りの大首《時局調》が掲載 され、「かねて合羽摺の新しい表現に努力してゐられる大 筆君の時局調戦時姿の大首絵を口絵に撰んだ。合羽摺の 上手石渡〔庄一郎〕君は、その技頗る細微に入り、殆ん ど技巧の極地に達した。大筆君の技はやゝ粗だが、本来 の合羽摺の技巧的性格を尊重し、その範囲で之を活用し、 独自の画境を開拓しつゝある。その芸術観については次 号に説く所があるであらう」(無署名=楢崎宗重か)と紹 介されている。その後、同年 7 月の同誌(第 3 巻第 7 号) に「新風俗画への展望」が掲載された。【文献】『浮世繪界』 3-5(1938.5)・3-7(1938.7)/岡本唐貴・松山文夫編『日 本プロレタリア美術史』(造形社 1967) (三木)

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