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Oshun - Bunraku
by Nishizawa Shizuo (1912-1997)

	Artist:	Nishizawa Shizuo (1912-1997)
	Title:	Oshun - Bunraku
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	Not set
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Self
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Self
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Not Set
	Format (this edition):	Not Set
	DB artwork code:	38297
	Notes (first edition)?:
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Thursday, 25 August 2005 Title Oshun - Bunraku limited edition Artist Shizuo Nishizawa 1912-1997 Signature "S. Nishisawa", edition number, date and title in pencil on the lower margin Dated 1988 Technique/Medium Etching Impression excellent … printed on a thick laid paper, "Nishisawa" embossed on the right lower margin. Colors excellent … solid gold colored metallic pigment on the background Condition excellent - very good … pencil markings on the right corners. Edition Size 30 Numbered 10 / 30 Description "Oshun" from the Bunraku puppet play,"Chikagoro Kawara no Aibiki". Shizuo Nishisawa was famous for his exquisite and highly skilled colored-etching works especially the ones depicting Bunraku puppets. In 1983, the Nobel Prize Foundation in Sweden asked Nishizawa to make a print in commemoration of the first Japanese Nobel laureat for literature, Kawabata Yasunari. Width 10.4 inches = 26.5 cm Height 13.2 inches = 33.5 cm Width of Image 7.1 inches = 18.0 cm Height of Image 9.3 inches = 23.5 cm