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** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED
** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED

** RARE M. Toshijiro URUSHIBARA JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT BUTTERFLY 1926 SIGNED

$ 258.71

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Primary Material: Wood
  • Featured Refinements: Japanese Woodblock Print
  • Region of Origin: Japan
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints

    Description

    ANTIQUE JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT RARE original SIGNED and TITLED. Bottom left pencil by Mokuchu Urushibara appears to read "For - Brochure G--" Butterfly and blue tulip and bamboo.
    This untrimmed wood block measures 13 in x 16 in. The print image measures 11 in x 13 in. The condition is very good original condition with one slight stain on top right Edge and very slight boarder wrinkles as seen in photo. Very slight tinting.
    Mokuchu Toshijiro Urushibara was born on March 12, 1889, in Shiba, Tokyo, the fourth son of Kanryo Urushibara and his wife Tsuru. Following in his brothers' footsteps, the younger Urushibara studied the techniques of carving and printing woodblocks. In
    1910, Urushibara traveled to London joining other Japanese artisans to demonstrate wood block printing techniques at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition held at the White City in London. About this same time the British Museum had hired a Japanese printing firm to reproduce a famous scroll painting by the noted Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi. Urushibara was hired for the project and the museum later requested him to mount the scroll.
    He remained in London, first working freelance mounting and restoring old prints but his reputation was such that artists wanting to learn how to carve and print their own woodblocks sought
    him as a teacher. He was quite influential in the English revival of the color woodcut and it is thought that the taught Alan Seaby and John Platt the intricacies of carving and printing.
    Urushibara collaborated with the Belgium born artist, Frank Brangwyn, translating his watercolors into color woodblock prints. Their most noted collaboration was the portfolio, Ten woodcuts by Yoshijiro Urushibara after designs by Frank Brangwyn.
    He also produced his own color woodcuts with nature and floral subjects. After about thirty years in England and Europe, Urushibara repatriated with Japan in 1940 at the suggestion of the British government due to the Second World War. In Japan, he had to take a clerical job at the chemical company for the duration of the war. In 1945 he return to the production of his work and held exhibitions of his color woodcuts at the Misukoshi Department stores in Tokyo and Kobe.Urushibara died on January 6, 1953.
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