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Colour woodblock print, oban size, artist's seal and signature, published by Uchida, mid 20th century, 1st edition. Good condition, a few spots.
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Benji Asada (1899-1984) was born in Kameoka, a town near Kyoto. He received his art training at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting.
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Prints depicting birds and flowers are called kacho-e .
They have a long tradition in Chinese and Japanese painting. Hokusai and Hiroshige were the great old masters of kacho-e in the first half of the nineteenth century and the tradition was continued by the shin hanga artists in the 20th century, such as Koson Ohara and Benji Asada.
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