Watanabe calendar woodblock Japanese printa of girl Dec 1998 -Shuzo Ikeda

Description: Watanabe calendar woodblock Japanese print of girl Dec 1998 - By Artist Shuzo Ikeda. Watanabe calendar woodblock Japanese print Dec 1998. This listing is for 1 Japanese woodblock print issued in 1998 as part of a calendar offering from the publisher Watanabe. (December print) The calendar is composed of refined original woodblock prints which are designed by seven artists, who engraved the woodblocks themselves, and were printed by hands of most traditional skillful printers. This woodblock print is in nice condition. see image for best assessment The paper is pretty nice paper. You can re-frame the artwork with or without the calendar. This print is approx. 5.5" x 6.25" or 16cm x 14cm (image area) Overall sheet is approx 19cm x 27cm ships usps First Class - Ships flat Shuzo Ikeda was born in 1922 (d 2004) in Kisakata-machi, Akita Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Tokyo Higher Normal School in 1945, and began to teach from 1946 to 1955. After teaching, Ikeda worked in Tokyo as a full-time Hanga artist, which was an artist who worked in woodblock printing. He was especially good in integrating the texture of the woodblock grain into his images. Shuzo specialized in wide-eyed children with flowers, birds, insects, sacred stone images, and native dolls. He often signed his drawings as "Shu. Ikeda".Shuzo Ikeda's art is typical for the post-war economic booming years of circa 1960 until 1985. It was the period of a prosperous post-war economy and of great cultural changes in the industrialized Western nations, in the way of life, music and fashion.

Price: 40 USD

Location: Bronx, New York

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