Elichi Kotozuka, woodblock, "Blue Iris",
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image area 11" X 16" plus mat and frame.....Eiichi Kotozuka, born in Osaka, graduated from the Kyoto Kaiga Semmon Gakko (Technical School of Painting) in 1930. From 1932, he exhibited prints with Shun’yokai (Spring Principle Association), an artist’s organization that exhibited Western-style art. He also exhibited with the government sponsored Teiten. He was a member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai (Japan Print Association) from 1938. In addition to print making, Kotozuka exhibited Japanese-style paintings with the artists' organization Seiryusha, which he helped found in 1929. He was also a co-founder of Koryokusha in 1948 with fellow artists Tokuriki TomikichirÅ (1902-2000), Kamei TÅbei  (1901-1977) and Takahashi TasaburÅ (1904-1977) which they set up to publish their creative prints (sosaku hanga). After WWII he created a number of designs for the publisher Uchida Publishing, including his most famous series Eight Snow Scenes of Kyoto.
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Elichi Kotozuka, woodblock, "Blue Iris",
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