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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | The Third Gate of the Ruins of Kumoro Castle |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1950 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Adachi |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Adachi |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 42487 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Monday, 6 September 2010
Title San-no-mon Gate
rare
Artist Masamoto Mori born 1912
Signature 'Masamoto'.
Seal Artist's seal.
Dated 1950.
Publisher Adachi.
Medium/Technique Woodblock print.
Impression Excellent - very good.
Colors Excellent - very good.
Condition Excellent - Very good … Light toning. Slight foxing. Slight mat line along the middle of the left side of the image. Top left corner and the middle of the upper margin are pasted on the original presentation folder.
Description "Komoro-jo ato San no Mon". San-no-mon gate at the remains of Komoro castle in Nagano prefecture. The gate is used as the entrance to the "kaiko-en" (Retro Garden) of the castle.
Width Item 17.8 inches = 45.3 cm
Height Item 13.4 inches = 34.0 cm
Width Mat 20.6 inches = 52.2 cm
Height Mat 14.9 inches = 37.8 cm |
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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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