Evening at Shiogama - 1954 - Kasamatsu Shiro 笠松紫浪 (1898-1991) - Published by Unsodo - 日本

Shiro Kasamatsu 1898 – 1991
Title: Evening at Shiogama
Date: 1954
Publisher: Unsodo

Kasamatsu was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga styles of woodblock printing.

Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shozoburo Watanabe from 1919. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960. He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sosaku Hanga style. He produced nearly 80 Sosaku Hanga prints between 1955 and 1965.

This print is of an evening at Shiogama and is published by Unsodo in 1954. This print is a first edition and is dated in the margin.

Size: (including margins) 40 cm x 26.5 cm; (image only) 36.5 cm x 24 cm

Condition: very good.

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