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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Bamboo |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 30647 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Bamboo
Eiichi Kotozuka
This subject, one of a pair of bamboo subjects by the artist, depicts the lush top foliage of the mature bamboo in the summer. The simple color palette of gray and soft green is stunning.
Sealed- in black with artist’s seal
Image size- 10 1/2” x 15 3/4” (large oban tate-e)
Condition- Excellent, no toning, tears, not mounted, full margins
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| Artist Bio: |
KOTOZUKA, EIICHI was born in Osaka in 1906. He studied at the Kyoto Specialist School of Painting and in the late 1940s was one of the four artists who founded a co-operative publishing company called Koryokusha in an effort to gain an artistic expression free of the major houses. Tokuriki, Tobei and Tasaburo were the other three involved. He has created quite a number of woodblocks covering unique scenes of Japanese tradition, flowers, landscapes and wildlife. He was a member of the Seiryusha Group of Liberal Artists and Died in 1979.
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