Artist: Bakufu Ohno
Title: Rainbow Trout — ヤマメ
Date: 1940
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Sunday, 10 July 2005 Original Japanese Woodblock Print by Bafuku Ohno, 1888-1976. He was an honored painter and printmaker in Japan, a member of the Hyogo Prefecture Academy of Fine Arts. This print is titled "Rainbow Trout. " I verifed it in a catalog of the era! It is from his famous Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection, circa 1940. This series, my limited research indicates, consists of 72 prints of fresh and saltwater fish & crustaceans. This print is in it's original mat. The actual print dimensions are 16" x 11 1/4 " . "Rainbow Trout" is a marvel of springtime greens - the countless shades of green in the water, on the fish, and on the leaves of the flowering branches hanging over the water. The bellies of the fish and the tips of their fins are touched with fine powdered mica for a realistic fishscale effect. The print itself is in EXCELLENT condition Upon reviewing the photos, I see at least one faded spot in the upper corner of the print. This is not visible to the naked eye, but I want to bring it to you attention for the sake of full disclosure. Please note condition on the original mat: a piece of paper (marked "Rainbow Trout") was paperclipped to the lower right corner of the mat. I believe the paperclip was there for many years. This paperclip left an indentation and there is a slight second paperclip indent also on the left side of the mat. Two of the photos in this listing are of the labels, one in English and one in Japanese. They are on the original brown paper wrapping the set of prints were purchased in. They will not be included in this sale, they are for reference photos only. Please notice I have two other prints from this artist listed on ebay - shrimp and sweetfish. I purchased eight originally. Two have sold, two I am keeping for my collection (goldfish and hairtail eel - which is an amazing study in cobalt blue). The remaining print, koi, we are still deciding if we will keep or list. I bought them just down the road at a very small antique shop that also does estate sales. The shop owner told me they came from a local house that had belonged to an elderly couple and they had purchased the prints in Japan. He did not have the time to research them, but suggested I should.
