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Heron in Rain
by Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-)

Original caretaker of this artwork: Hara Shobo

	Artist:	Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一
	Title:	Heron in Rain
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	circa 1960-1990
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Uchida — 内田
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Uchida — 内田
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Large Oban
	Format (this edition):	Large Oban
	DB artwork code:	47626
	Notes (first edition)?:	KOTOZUKA EIICHI Heron in rain 45x29cm.
	Notes (this edition)?:
	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.