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立春大吉 Risshun daikichi "Great Luck on the First Day of Spring", ca.1980 / Toru Shimizu 清水遠流 b. 1938-?Winter is coming! To celebrate the joy of now disappearing snow, a selection of 8 prints, of which this is number 4, from the work of a virtually unknow designer and printer, Toru (Tohoru) Shimizu Title: Risshun daikichi "Great Luck on the First Day of Spring", ca. 1980 From Hellen Merrit's Guide: Toru Shimizu was born in 1938 Toyama prefecture. He was a self taught hanga artist. His style is detailed and descriptive. Series of prints include, "Snow

myjapanesehanga

compiled by former Edo Goverment officer

Sealed Ho'un 芳雲

This set of prints has been carefully crafted using the same traditional methods that were used to create the original Hoeido edition

I cannot read the seal script

My copy is untrimmed

these were the most famous sets of the knowledge- flourishing Meiji eraOriginal dark-blue covers with printed title-slips

1935-37There are no copies for sale on the western market right now

Shima Seien (1892-1970) and Uemura Shoen (1875-1949)

Painter of the Tosa School in the mid-to late-Edo period

Technique: color woodblock printed

were lost/destroyed in the war so the few editions that followed were linotype or color collotype reproductions