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Lake Ashi — 芦ノ湖
by Mori Masamoto

Original caretaker of this artwork: Private collector

	Artist:	Mori Masamoto — 森正元
	Title:	Lake Ashi — 芦ノ湖
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	circa 1950-1970
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Baba Nobuhiko — 馬場信彦
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Baba Nobuhiko — 馬場信彦
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Postcard
	Format (this edition):	Postcard
	DB artwork code:	47433
	Notes (first edition)?:	Baba publisher seal at lower left. Title and artist's seal 正 at lower right. Attributed to Mori Masamoto, but given Masamoto usually signed his postcards with two characters 正元, not one, and given the style of postcards signed with the single character 正 vary from those signed with two characters, it is certainly possible this scene was drawn/sketched by a new, unknown, artist. Style-wise the print is very similar to that of Tsuchiya Koitsu, and this scene appears to be a posthumous reproduction (knock-off) of Koitsu's Lake Ashi, which was also published by Baba.
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Thanks to Fran for this database entry.