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| Artist: | Mori Masamoto — 森正元 |
| Title: | Mt Fuji from Gotemba — 御殿場富士 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1953 |
| 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: | 48127 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Original Masamoto Mori (1912 - ?) Japanese Woodblock Print
Mt. Fuji
Masamoto Mori - Very little is known about the artist Masamoto Mori other than that he was born in 1912, and he designed several landscape prints for Adachi Publishing in the 1950s. His shin hanga images are beautifully rendered with wonderful attention to detail and a subdued palette of colors. Woodblock prints by Mori are quite rare and hardly ever seen on the market. His attractive, large format scenes would make a terrific addition to any shin hanga collection.
Publisher - Adachi, with red seal on reverse
Artist - Masamoto Mori (1912 - ?)
Image Size - 12 1/4" x 16 5/8" + margins as shown
Condition - With excellent color and detail as shown. Slight paper remnants on reverse at three points along top edge from previous folio mounting. Slight creasing and soiling. Please see photos for details. Good overall. |
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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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