New Year's Day (元旦) ca. 1980 / Toru Shimizu 清水遠流 b. 1938-?Winter is coming! To celebrate the joy of now disappearing snow, here for auction a selection of 8 prints, of which this is number 1, from the work of a virtually unknow designer and printer, Toru (Tohoru) ShimizuFrom Hellen Merrit's Guide: Toru Shimizu was born in 1938 Toyama prefecture. He was a self taught hanga artist. His style is detailed and descriptive. Series of prints include, "Snow Country (Yukiguni) 1971, Four Seasons in Japan (Nihon no

signed and sealed

size 36x25 cm

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Designs from the set are illustrated both in The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints fromthe Robert O

The calligraphy part is ink on paper

this is the 1905 edition

Its success was primarily due to the huge number of illustrations that Uchida called "shashin (photography)

5cmGorgeous woodblocks

unfortunately I cannot read kanbun & kuzushiji

鳥類圖譜  handpainted art album of birds (kacho-ga) 27x39 cm (open)

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Her costume is beautifully decorated with gold and silver colored metallic pigments