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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Five-Storey Pagoda in Ueno — 上野五重塔 |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1950-1970 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Baba Nobuhiko — 馬場信彦 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Baba Nobuhiko — 馬場信彦 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
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Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Postcard
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| Format (this edition): | Postcard |
| DB artwork code: | 46261 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Publisher seal "Ba" at lower left. Artist seal at lower right.
Attributed to Mori Masamoto, but given Masamoto usually signed his postcards with two characters 正元, not one, and given the style of postcards signed with the single character 正 vary from those signed with two characters, it is certainly possible this scene was drawn/sketched by a new, unknown, artist. |
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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:
Thanks to Chas for this example. |
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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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