Artist: Tsuchiya Koitsu
Title: Maruyama Park- woodblock printing demo book
Date: 1950
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Saturday, 5 November 2005 Up for bidding is this book on THE PROCESS OF WOOD BLOCK PRINTING. UKIYO is a genre picture developed in close connection with wood-cut printing. They were very popular among the common people in the TOKUGAWA ERA (1618-1863). They are worked out through the joint efforts of a painter,an engraver and a printer. This book represents the process of printing. The print in this folded book is of a FAMOUS PARK IN KYOTO called MARUYAMA, AND THE WORK OF KOITSU TSUCHIYA (1870-1949) in 1936. HE WAS THE BEST PUPIL of KIYOCHIKA KOBAYASHI (1846-1915) called HIROSHIGE (1796-1858) in MEIJI era. Published by DOI HANGATEN TOKYO . THIS BOOK IS IN GREAT SHAPE AND WHAT AN INTERESTING PROCESS TO SEE TRANSFORM FROM PAGE TO PAGE.