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| Artist: | Kawano Kaoru (1916-1965) — 河野薫 |
| Title: | Hagoromo — 飛天 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1961 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Huge
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| Format (this edition): | Huge |
| DB artwork code: | 45483 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Note: the depicted characters are "Hiten" (the Japanese title), celestial maidens that fly around and worship Buddhist gods. The English title "Hagoromo" refers to the magical feather-mantle of a tennin (an aerial spirit or celestial dancer).
Good morning,
I have attached a photograph of a print my parents brought home from Japan when we lived there from 1959 - 1962. I was wondering if you can identify it for me and supply me any additional information about it.
The measurements for each screen are about 23x35.5. In speaking with my father last evening he said that it is one print and that only 2 were made because of the size and difficulty in doing a block print of that size. My dad said also that it was hung in The Ueno museum before we purchased it. He was not sure if that is the correct spelling for the museum. The screen does fold in the center and looks to be two large block prints. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Kaoru Kawano was a very popular artist, known for his distinctively styled depictions of figures, especially children. He uses the woodgrain patterns to render the textures and the mood to his works.
Double-oban-sized prints are almost always limited-edition lifetime strikes that are pencil-signed, editioned, and titled by Kawano himself. There are rare later editions that have stencilled titles, which I believe are posthumous strikes.
Large-oban-sized scenes with a pencil-signed signature (usually within the printed area) will be lifetime editions signed by the artist, while unsigned prints with a black round seal on the verso will be posthumous strikes.
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