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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Pagoda of Nara Kofuku Temple |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1951 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Adachi |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Adachi |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 48124 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Pagoda of Kofuku Temple, 1951
Woodblock Print
Size: Large oban, 17.5 x 13.25 in
Dated: 1951. Most likely there were no further editions published.
Signed and sealed within the printed area at lower left with the artists seal. Red Adachi publisher's seal in the lower left margin.
Description: "Nara Kofuku-ji no Tou". The tall pagoda of Kofuku temple in Nara at night. The temple is the headquarter of the Hossô school of Buddhism. Kôfuku temple and other ancient temples and shrines in Nara received the distinction of being named a "UNESCO World Heritage Site" under the name: "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara". |
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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:
Pagoda of Kofuku Temple, 1951
Woodblock Print
17.5 x 13.25 in
Description: "Nara Kofuku-ji no Tou". The tall pagoda of Kofuku temple in Nara at night. The temple is the headquarter of the Hossô school of Buddhism. Kôfuku temple and other ancient temples and shrines in Nara received the distinction of being named a "UNESCO World Heritage Site" under the name: "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara". Works by the Artist are rarely seen.
Issued: 1951
Edition: first edition
Condition: Good, with light toning, faintly light stuck
Signed: within image with artists seal, publisher seal left margin |
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| Artist Bio: |
Mori Masamoto was a Japanese artist who was born in 1912. Little is known about Masamoto. He designed about 16 large-format shin-hanga landscape prints for Adachi Publishing in the 1950s, and about four oban-sized scenes for the publisher Baba Nobuhiko in the late 1950s after Baba re-established his publishing business after it was destroyed in world war 2. He also published at least 16 postcard-sized prints via Baba and perhaps other publishers. Masamoto's large-format shin-hanga scenes are beautifully rendered with wonderful attention to detail including masterful 'bokashi' colour graduation and often have subdued colour palettes . Woodblock prints by Masamoto are very rare, suggesting a single edition with small edition size for each scene (perhaps only 50 to 100 strikes per scene), and as a result are difficult to obtain.
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