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| Artist: | Kamei Tobei (1901-1977) — 亀井藤兵衛 |
| Title: | Flower and Grasshopper |
| Series: | 50 Kinds of Flowers — もくはん自刻花五十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 20/01/1935 |
| Date of this artwork?: | 5_/04/1936 (may not be accurate) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Unsodo — 芸艸堂 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Unsodo — 芸艸堂 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Aiban
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| Format (this edition): | Aiban |
| DB artwork code: | 45374 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
From the second edition published in April 1936 (see the publisher notes image). The first edition was published in 1935. |
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| Series Information: |
| The first edition of this series of 50 prints appears to have been sold to subscription buyers via periodic sets of five prints (perhaps each month). With the completion of subscription purchases a second edition of all 50 scenes was then published in April 1936. Subscription sales were a very common method of selling large print series. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Kamei Tobei studied at Kyoto Kaiga Semmon Gakko. He was a founding member of the Kyoto Sosaku Hanga Kyokai. With Tomikichiro Tokuriki and Kotozuka Eiichi he established his own publishing company to support the selling of Sosaku Hanga prints. In 1953 Kamei followed an old Japanese artist tradition and changed his name - to Genbei Kamei.
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