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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Mount Asama in Kutsukake — 沓掛の浅間 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1952/12 |
| 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: | 48128 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Title: Mount Asama in Kutsukake
Artist: Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature: Masamoto
Seal: red artist's seal
Dated: 1952 December
Publisher: Adachi
Technique/Medium: Woodblock print
Description Mt. Asama in the morning glow.
Format: large Oban yoko-e
Width: 17.5 inches = 44.5 cm
Height: 13.0 inches = 33.0 cm |
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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:
Note: this scene is either very badly faded, or it is a colour variant printed with a subdued colour palette.
Artist: Mori Masamoto 森正元
Title: Mount Asama in Kutsukake 沓掛の浅間
Technique: Woodblock Print
Date: 1952 December |
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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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