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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Lake Ashi — 芦ノ湖 |
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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: | 47433 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Baba publisher seal at lower left. Title and artist's seal 正 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.
Style-wise the print is very similar to that of Tsuchiya Koitsu, and this scene appears to be a posthumous reproduction (knock-off) of Koitsu's Lake Ashi, which was also published by Baba. |
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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 Fran for this database entry. |
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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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