Fujimori Shizuo (1891-1943)

Young woman in winter dress

SKU: 12434

Fujimori Shizuo (1891-1943)

Young woman in winter dress

Name: Young woman in winter dress
Brand: Fujimori Shizuo
SKU: 12434
Availability: OutOfStock

SKU: 12434

Paper size 33.0 x 25.1 cm

Original Date 1930

Edition Date 1930

Carver/printer Fujimori Shizuo / Fukimori Shizuo

Description Young woman in winter dress Paper size: 25.1 x 33 cm. Self-printed in 1930. Pencil-signed and dated in the bottom margin. Red artist's seal top right. Poem by Yosano Akiko - 與謝野晶子 (1876-1942), pioneering feminist poet, "whose powerful and highly personal verse in her collection Midaregami created a sensation in Japan in 1901", to the right. This is probably the companion piece of a similar print by Onchi Kôshirô, see "detail". Extremely rare!!

Condition Fine impression, colour and condition Onchi Kôshirô, Fujimori Shizuo and Tanaka Kiyokichi were the original "three musketeers", who founded the groundbreaking magazine Tsukuhae in 1914. Tanaka Kiyokichi died of tuberculosis in 1915.