Title
The Great Bell of Tôdaiji, Nara, from the series New hundred views of Japan
1938-1939
Artist
Kotozuka Eiichi
1906 –
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Details
- Alternative title
- Shin Nihon hyakkei: 21 Nara Tôdaiji daishôrô
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Date
- 1938-1939
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
- 32.1 x 30.1 cm image; 24.4 x 31.6 cm mount
- Signature & date
Signed c.r., ink [incised on block] "(artist's seal)". Not dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8.1997.31
- Artist information
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Kotozuka Eiichi
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About
This series of prints is a unique set of prints in two ways: at least thirty contemporary artists collaborated in a single series of landscape prints, depicting both famous places & scenery of modern urban life. This series is a product of the Creative Print Movement, a modern movement in printmaking which began early in the 20th century by artists who designed, blockcut & printed their own work with a clear intention of creating works of art as opposed to `surimono', reproductions. Due to the intensification of WWII, publication of the series was stopped by the Japanese authorities who feared that the interior of Japan would become known to its enemies.
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Where the work was made
Japan