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Shishinden — 紫宸殿
by Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-)

Original caretaker of this artwork: Floating World Gallery

	Artist:	Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一
	Title:	Shishinden — 紫宸殿
	Series:	Kyoto Gosho
	Date of first edition?:	05/05/1950
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Suiko Shoin — 推古書院
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Suiko Shoin — 推古書院
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Postcard
	Format (this edition):	Postcard
	DB artwork code:	47886
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	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.