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| Artist: | Nouet Noel (1885-1969) |
| Title: | Asakusa Temple — 浅草寺 |
| Series: | Scenes of Tokyo Views |
| Date of first edition?: | 1936 |
| 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: | 31863 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Asakusa Temple by Noel Nouet. Genuine woodblock print dated 1936. Later impression from original blocks. Oban size measures 15.8 x 10.5 inches. Yamaguchi supervisor's seal, Doi publisher's seal, Endo carver's seal and Seki printer's seal in left margin. Title in right margin. Nuetto Saku and hanmoto Doi in bottom margin. Very nice craftsmanship. Good detail and ink bleed thorugh.
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| Artist Bio: |
NOEL NOUET was a French artist who designed prints of Tokyo land-and-citiscapes. Little is known about Nouet's formative years. During the 1930's and 40's, he worked as the director of La Maison Franco-Japonaise and was a lecturer at Tokyo University. In 1935, Nouet began collaborating with the Tokyo publisher Doi Teiichi. His first woodblock prints were monochrome, based on his pen and ink sketches. These prints include "Gate of Zozoji Temple" and "Kikyo Gate of the Emperor's Palace". In 1936, Doi and Nouet produced a series of color woodblock prints called "Ten Views of Tokyo". All of these prints are signed and dated in English within the image. In 1946, Nouet published a book of his drawings called Tokyo: Fifty Sketches. He also wrote several books on Japanese history.
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