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| Artist: | Narazaki Eisho (Fuyo, Kyokudo, Shinjo) — 楢崎栄昭、扶陽、新城 |
| Title: | Snowladen Reeds and Kingfisher |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1920 (in the decade of) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Mitsugiri
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| Format (this edition): | Mitsugiri |
| DB artwork code: | 46340 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
| Titled "Snowladen Reeds and Kingfisher", by the artist "Furo", print number 231, in the 1936 Watanabe catalogue (see here. |
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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:
A very special Japanese 1920s Antique wood print by Eisho Narazaki 1866-1937 in good condition looks like a tiny bit of foxing in the right top area. The design and Deep Blue colors of the King fisher are beautiful and it is done on a hard board format not thin paper. It's 14 1/2" by 6 1/2" Look closely at pictures the publisher is Wananabe an important note.扶 |
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| Artist Bio: |
We can confirm that his works were published via Watanabe and that he first used the pseudonym Fuyo from around 1916 to 1932, after which he used Eisho:
LINK to scan of catalogue
However, according to Merritt (and likely sourced from the ukiyo-e scholar Fujikake Shizuya, 1938), Narazaki Eisho used the art names Fuyo from 1916-1922, and Eisho from 1922-1936.
Note that all of the mitsugiri prints that I have seen are signed "Fuyo" 扶陽, not Eisho, so I suspect the mitsugiri prints are his oldest works (and indeed they do look older than his oban-sized print).
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