Japanese Woodblock Print, c.1950s, 1st edition, published by Uchida

SIZE IN INCHES: oban, 10.5 x 16 inches

BENJI ASADA (1899-1984) received his art training at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting. One of his teachers was Goun Nishimura, a Japanese painter. He was active in the circles of sosaku hanga artists in Tokyo and Kyoto in the 1920s and 1930s. But while the artists in Tokyo were either sosaku hanga followers or proponents of the shin hanga idea mentored by the publisher Watanabe, the Kyoto printmakers had no problems working in both methods and styles. Collectors will find self-made prints by the artist, and "artisan prints" published by Uchida in the 1950s.

Fine, no flaws