Taizô: Country House
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Minagawa Taizô (1917-2005)

Interior of a traditional old large Minka house in the countryside. Above the open fireplace (irori) hangs a large iron kettle, on the little table in front of it a candlestick next to a pair of glasses and a pipe. To the left, a large cupboard with ceramics and a small Shintô house altar. A black cat lies in front of the open sliding wall in the background.

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Seal: Tai

Publisher: Mikumo, Kyoto

Date: C. 1965

Size: 27,2 x 24,7 cm (image), overall size 30,5 x 28 cm

Excellent impression and colours, with full margins. In bottom right margin embossed "Wood block hand print by Kyoto Mikumo Japan". A few weak creases in margin and verso in top and bottom margin each a paper remnant from previous attachment. Overall very good condition.
A homely scene by the Kyoto artist Minagawa Taizô, who was mainly active as a textile artist, but who also created some woodblock prints for Unsodô and also for the smaller publisher Mikumo Mokuhansha, with a great fondness for so-called Mingei ("folk art") subjects and depictions of traditional Japanese rural architecture.

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