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Hydrangea
by Maruyama Banka (1867-1942)

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	Artist:	Maruyama Banka (1867-1942) — 村山ばんか
	Title:	Hydrangea
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	1903
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Self
	Medium (first edition):	Watercolour
	Format (first edition):	Large Oban
	Notes (first edition)?:	A beautiful Japanese Watercolor by a listed artist Banka Maruyama , born in 1867 and died in 1942 , Meiji Period. This watercolor is a landscape scenes of a hillside with a few cabins or houses with a lot of white flowers blooming .This watercolor is signed and dated on the lower right side , B.Maruyama 1903 . One of Japan's most important watercolor artists during the Meiji Period . He was born in Nagano , Japan . Much of his work sits in museums and private collections . The image size is 12" by 19" and framed . The frame has 1 dent on the bottom left side , about 3/8 of an inch .