Bakufû: Wrasses
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Ôno (Ohno) Bakufû (1888-1976)

A group of colourful wrasses (labridae, Jap. bera) swimming among flowering algae.

Series: Dai Nihon gyorui gashû (Familiar Fishes of Japan)

Signature: Bakufû and artist's seal

Publisher: Kyôto Hanga-in (stamp "Kyoto Hangain Ltd." and the same in Japanese verso In bottom margin)

Date: first 1940 - this edition c. 1950

Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Vertical Ôban, 40,5 x 28,2 cm (overall)

Very nice and crisp impression and colours, with some shimmering silver mica on the dark background. A little later edition, from the original blocks. Round red seal (Hanabishi-mon) in bottom right corner. Excellent condition.

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