Japanese Woodblock Print c.1950s sosaku-hanga style postcard

SIZE IN INCHES: 4 x 5.7 inches

nese Woodblock Print

SIZE IN INCHES: inches

EIICHI KOTOZUKA (1906-1981) was a 20th-century Japanese commercial artist and woodblock printmaker. He was a prolific artist of the s?saku-hanga style. He was one of four artists who co-founded the print publishing company Koryokusha. He was noted for his prints of Japanese cultural traditions, flowers, landscapes, and wildlife.

Kotozuka was an adherent of the sosaku hanga style of illustration, which emphasized a print process with greater direct artist involvement, resulting in a somewhat more crude illustration, but one with stronger emotional impact. Prior to sosaku hanga, an artist would create an illustration which would be passed to a team of engravers, printers, and publishers who would each control the production of the final print. In sosaku hanga, the artist was directly involved with each step.

VG with flaws as shown