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| Artist: | Kotozuka Eiichi (1906-) — 琴塚英一 |
| Title: | Kitano Shrine in Early Spring |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Uchida — 内田 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Chuban
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| Format (this edition): | Chuban |
| DB artwork code: | 30964 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT ON SILK, SIGNED!!
This woodblock print was done by the artist Eiichi Kotozuka a liberal artist of the of the group called Seiryusha. This painting is entitled "Kitano Shrine in Early Spring". This period during the 20th century when this print was done is called the Showa period, probably around the 1950's or early 1960's. This painting is done on silk and is in excellent condition. The mat measures 11 3/4" long and 9 1/4" tall. |
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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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