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Notes (1st edition)Title: Cormorant Fishing Artist Yoshimune Arai 1873-1945 Seal Yoshimune Dated Ca. 1920s/30s Publisher Nishinomiya Yosaku Medium/Technique Woodblock print Width Item 10.8 inches = 27.4 cm Height Item 8.3 inches = 21.1 cm Description Fishing boats with torches and a large pleasure boat are seen in a bay in the evening. Listed as #1291 in the 1930 Hasegawa catalog
Publisher (this edition): Nishinomiya Yosaku Nishinomiya Nishinomiya Nishinomiya Nishinomiya
Date of this item:
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.:
Saturday, 7 July 2007


Title Cormorant Fishing
provenance: Robert O. Muller estate
Artist Yoshimune Arai 1873-1945
Seal Yoshimune
Dated Ca. 1930s
Publisher Nishinomiya Yosaku
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression very good
Colors excellent - very good
Condition excellent - very good … slight toning, the upper margin slightly creased.
Description Cormorant fishing boats and a pleasure boat.
Note "Made in Japan", Nishinomiya's copy-right seal stamped on the back. Provenance: Robert O. Muller estate.
Width Item 11.0 inches = 28.0 cm
Height Item 8.5 inches = 21.5 cm
ARAI YOSHIMUNE
Fishing with Cormorants on the River Nagara
from the series Japanese Scenes
Date: not dated but originally published by Hasegawa/Nishinomiya c.1930s, this edition published by Nishinomiya with publisher's seal in the lower right margin; listed as #1291 in the 1930 Hasegawa catalog
Size: chuban, approx. 10.4" X 7.75"
Condition: VG, printer's smudge in top margin, uncirculated print, never framed
Impression: Fine, solid key lines, and tight registration
Color: Fine, saturated color and bleed through to verso
Provenance: from the estate of Robert O. Muller (see below for more information)
Title Torch Lights on Fishing Boats (Muller Collection)
Artist Yoshimune Arai 1873-1945
Seal artist's seal (yoshimune)
Dated ca. 1930s
Publisher Nishinomiya Yosaku
Technique/Medium Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good
Colors excellent
Condition excellent - very good … upper margin lightly creased
Description Fishing boats with torches and a large pleasure boat are seen in a bay in the evening.
Note "Made in Japan" and Nishinomiya's copy right seal stamped right bottom verso. (Provenance) Robert O. Muller Estate
Format Chuban
Width 11.0 inches = 28.0 cm
Height 8.3 inches = 21.0 cm

Title Cormorant Fishing
provenance: Robert O. Muller estate
Artist Yoshimune Arai 1873-1945
Seal Yoshimune
Dated Ca. 1930s
Publisher Nishinomiya Yosaku
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression excellent - very good
Colors excellent
Condition excellent - very good … slight discoloration on the upper margin edge.
Description Cormorant fishing boats and a pleasure boat.
Note "Made in Japan" stamped on the back. Provenance: Robert O. Muller estate.
Width Item 10.8 inches = 27.4 cm
Height Item 8.3 inches = 21.1 cm
FINE ORIGINAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK.
c1920.
CORMORANT FISHING IN GIFU/
FISHING WITH CORMORANTS ON THE RIVER NAGARA
BY YOSHIMUNE ARAI.
WITH ARTIST RED SEAL MARK
ARTIST MARK AND PUBLISHES MARK TO RIGHT MARGIN.
NUMBERED 1295.
PUBLISHERS STAMP TO REVERSE.
FINE COLOUR AND BLEED THROUGH ON REVERSE.
MOUNTED ON PAPER WITH A FADED MOUNT.
ACTUAL WOOD BLOCK MEASURES
11" x 8 2/8" ( 28CM x 21CM)
GOOD EARLY 20THC JAPANESE WOODBLOCK.
GOOD CONDITION NO FOXING.
VERY SLIGHT WEAR TO CUT EDGES.
FINE ORIGINAL PIECE.
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