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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.