This 100% original, 1st edition antique woodblock print was hand made by Shiro Kasamatsu in 1954. 14.25 inches x 9.25 inches. Rarity is everything in wood block prints and this gem has been in a private collection for over 60 years. Please see my other listings coming up! Please look closely at the photos, satisfaction guaranteed. Guaranteed to be an original work. Styles of woodblock printing. Kasamatsu however took an interest in landscape and was given the pseudonym “Shiro” by his teacher. Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shozaburo Watanabe from 1919 until the late 1940s. All of the earlier woodblocks were destroyed in a fire in Watanabe’s print shop following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced nearly 102 prints by 1960. He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sosaku-Hanga style, producing nearly 80 Sosaku-Hanga prints between 1955 and 1965 (pencil signed and numbered editions). Shiro Kasamatsu is unique within modern Japanese woodblock printmakers in that he is equally well-regarded for both his shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga prints.
