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| Artist: | Nishimura Hodo — 蒲堂 |
| Title: | Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) - variant design — 金雉鳥 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1937/8 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Takemura Hideo — 竹村 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Takemura Hideo — 竹村 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 47671 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
This auction is for one original Japanese Woodblock print of a bird / a Golden Pheasant (kinkei-chou) standing on Bamboo and Begonia by Nishimura Hodo for Takemura Hideo.
These woodblock prints are rare and hard to find.
Woodblock print comes in Unique Vintage Frame, Bamboo Motif.
Minor scratches on frame.
Print is in good condition for its age.
Nishimura Hodo Japanese Original Woodblock Print Golden Pheasant Publication Date - 1937.
Publisher for these Hodo Nishimura prints was Takemura Hideo. They were created in the late 1930s in traditional woodblock technique.
We had never heard of Hodo Nishimura until the year 2003 when the famous collector and art dealer Robert O. Muller passed away and a huge collection of first class shin hanga came into the market. Hodo Nishimura came into the awareness of collectors of Japanese prints mainly with kacho-e, prints depicting flowers.
Woodblock prints showing animals are rather rare by the artist. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Nishimura Hodo is most likely the watercolour artist Saito Hodo. See my discussion of Saito Hodo here.
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