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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Sacred Bridge, Nikko |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1953 |
| 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: | 48126 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Original Mori Masamoto (1912 - ?) Japanese Woodblock Print
Title: Sacred Bridge, Nikko, 1953
Publisher - Adachi, with red seal in left margin
Image Size - 16 3/4" x 12 1/4" + margins
Note: Most examples scene in the market have the fugitive green inks of the grass and tree foliage faded to a blue hue. See the left edge of JAODB no. 38676 for an example with unfaded greens. |
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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:
Original Mori Masamoto (1912 - ?) Japanese Woodblock Print
Sacred Bridge, Nikko, 1953
Mori Masamoto - Very little is known about the artist Mori Masamoto other than that he was born in 1912, and he designed several landscape prints for Adachi Publishing in the 1950s. His shin-hanga images are beautifully rendered with wonderful attention to detail and a subdued palette of colors. Woodblock prints by Mori are quite rare and hardly ever seen on the market. His attractive, large format scenes would make a terrific addition to any shin-hanga collection.
Publisher - Adachi, with red seal in left margin
Artist - Mori Masamoto (1912 - ?)
Image Size - 16 3/4" x 12 1/4" + margins as shown
Condition - This print with nice detail as shown. Tape remnant on reverse at top edge from previous mounting. Small loss at corner, repaired. Toning, a few creases at edges. Please see photos for details. |
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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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