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| Artist: | Terunobu (Akimasa?, Shoshin?) — 照信 |
| Title: | Fuji in Snow (given title; official title unknown) — 富士 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1936 (in the decade of) |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Watanabe Shozaburo — 渡辺 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 47128 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Artist: Terunobu
Title: Mt. Fuji From Shoji
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Edition: First and only.
Date: 1936
Publisher: S. Watanabe
Reference No: Uncatalogued
Size: 10 -1/2 x 15 -1/2 " |
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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:
Artist: Terunobu
Title: Mt. Fuji From Shoji
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Edition: First and only.
Date: 1936
Publisher: S. Watanabe
Reference No: Uncatalogued
Size: 10 -1/2 x 15 -1/2 "
Condition: Very fine.
Notes: This work is not listed in the S. Watanabe catalogue and it bears several unusual Watanabe seal combinations, with a hand-written note from the father of shin hanga, Shozaburo Watanabe to the well known woodblock print expert and collector John Stewart Happer. Publisher's red 6mm seal, Watanabe gift seal and additional publisher seal on reverse. Presented to Mr. Happer as a gift, thus the "gift" seal and hand-written note by Shozaburo Watanabe reading: "To Mr. Happer".
JOHN STEWART HAPPER (1863-1937) was an American who was born in Canton, China. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In 1891 he went to Japan as manager for the Standard Oil Company. He then became manager for the American Trading Company in Kobe, and in 1904 was transferred to the firm's London office. In 1909 he sold his collection of Japanese prints at high prices in two sales at Sotheby's, Wilkinson and Hodge in London. One of the sales was devoted to Hiroshige, and Happer's scholarly catalogue was a pioneering work in the field. That year he returned to Kobe as manager for the Indian Oil Refining Co. of New York.
After his marriage to Mabel Bacon in 1915 he moved to Tokyo where he lived until his death. In his later years he lectured on Japanese art and taught English at the high schools of Waseda University, Tokyo. He published "Japanese Sketches and Prints" in 1934. Happer had a special interest in the work of Hiroshige, styling himself as "Hiroshige Happer". His friends erected a memorial tablet to him at Togaku Temple in Tokyo, where Hiroshige was buried. |
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| Artist Bio: |
Unknown artist who published via Watanabe Shozaburo in the 1930s.
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