50s Japanese Woodblock Print Pagoda in Nikko by Kotozuka Eiichi (MoP)

Up for sale from a recent client in Honolulu Hawaii this 1950s Japanese color woodblock print titled "Pagoda in Nikko" and was created by the well known artist Eiichi Kotozuka (琴塚 英一, 1906-1981). The print was published by the Uchida company. The condition is described above - for more information please check the photos.

Measurements:

Print 15.5 inches x 10.5 inches

Sheet 17.5 inches x 11.5 inches

More about the artist:

Eiichi Kotozuka (琴塚 英一, Kotozuka Eiichi, 1906 - 1 October 1981) was a 20th-century Japanese commercial artist and woodblock printmaker. He was a prolific artist of the sōsaku-hanga style. He was one of four artists who co-founded the print publishing company Koryokusha. He was noted for his prints of Japanese cultural traditions, flowers, landscapes, and wildlife.


Kotozuka was born in Osaka in 1906.[1] He was a member of the Seiryusha Group of Liberal Artists.[2]


Kotozuka was an adherent of the sosaku hanga style of illustration, which emphasized a print process with greater direct artist involvement, resulting in a somewhat more crude illustration, but one with stronger emotional impact. Prior to sosaku hanga, an artist would create an illustration which would be passed to a team of engravers, printers, and publishers who would each control the production of the final print. In sosaku hanga, the artist was directly involved with each step.[3]

Condition: 

The print is overall in good pre-owned condition, some faint brown spotting and toning in places, some staining from the mounting tape visible in the lower left and right margins, mat burn, mounting tape residue on the verso, print can be cleaned