“Fantastic” Japanese Wood Block Print by Tokuriki Tomikichiro Painting Signed-with Chop Mark Professionally Framed. Signed in pencil on right shoulder of wood block print. MEASURES: Framed- 22″ x 18″ – Unframed – 16″ x 11″. PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE! Friends of Japanese woodblock prints know his beautiful print designs in pastel colors. But few know about his real passion. The first teacher of the young Tomikichiro was his grandfather. Later he entered the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts with a two-year preparatory class and four years of regular training, and later a three year training at the Kyoto College of Art. He graduated from Kyoto College in 1923. While still at college, the young artist discovered his passion for. A movement that had spread from Tokyo to Kyoto. With the assistance of an old carver and an. Printer, Tomikichiro Tokuriki learned everything to master the complete process of design, carving and printing himself. Tokuriki was born in Kyoto, where he has always worked. The last of a long line of traditional-style painters, he turned early to woodblock prints and became a leader of the Kyoto’Sosaku Hanga’. He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and then from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1924. He was a member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai from 1932, and active in promoting’Sosaku Hanga’ in Kyoto. He was a co-founder of the Kyoto magazine’Taishu hanga’ in 1932, which helped create the sense of a local school of the Creative Print Movement much encouraged by Hiratsuka. He produced many sets of prints before and during the Pacific War based on traditional subjects, such as’Shin Kyoto fukei’ (‘New View of Kyoto’, 1933-4), which also included designs by Asada Benji q. And Asano Takeji b. 1900, and’Tokyo hakkei’ (‘Eight Views of Tokyo’, 1942). The item “Tokuriki Tomikichiro Japanese Wood Block Signed Chop Marked” is in sale since Sunday, March 26, 2017. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “1kul57″ and is located in Laurel, Maryland. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, to all countries in Europe, to all countries in continental Asia, to Australia, ZA, to New Zealand.

• Color: Multi-Color
• Maker: Japan
• Type: Paintings, Scrolls & Prints
• Primary Material: Paper
• Age: Unknown
• Region of Origin: Japan
• Original/Reproduction: Unknown
• Japan-wood block print: Signed Marked Professionally Framed
• Tokuriki Tomikichiro Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichiro(c1902-