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                MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)
                Tsuikai Munakata hanga Tokaido myotai byobu (Additions on
                Munakata prints: the grandiose beauty of Tokaido)
                Woodblock print, sumizuri-e, a complete set of 67 sheets, each signed,
                numbered, titled in pencil and sealed, with three opening and two
                ending pages
                Alternating horizontal and vertical designs, 16Ω x 20¬ in. (41.9 x
                52.4 cm.) each approx.
                With original wood box, titled, inscribed Toyuseibotsu Showa
                yonjushichi nen yoshifuyu shiwasu ichijoji (Sun rise up in East down
                in West, carved in December, good winter of 1972), signed Hogan
                Munakata Shiko Shinkai jidai (True view and self-inscribed by Hogen
                Munakata Shiko Shinkai), sealed Munakata Shiko, Kegon and an
                illegible seal; navy paper cover box with title slip sealed Munakata
                Shiko and another seal                         (67)
                $50,000-70,000

                PROVENANCE:
                Acquired from Munakata Pariji (1903-1998), 1972

                The 1970 Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit receiver
                Munakata Shiko, did not create a series of landscape based on real
                scene sketches until 1963, at age 60. 
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