AWAZU Kiyoshi
(Japan 1929–2009)
- Title
- January - pine, from the series Fantasies on Japanese playing cards (set No.2)
- Alternative title:
- Hanafuda Sô II
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Shôwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Year
- 1982
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Edition
- 26/100
- Dimensions
-
36.2 x 24.8cm image; 39.2 x 26.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r.corner, pencil "Kiyo AWAZU". Not dated. Signed l.centre., in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Fu Kiyoshi sha [copied by (non) Kiyoshi]". [The artist has used a pun, his name translates as 'clean', adding the tern non, he is implying the term 'dirty, or filthy']. Signed l.centre, in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Kiyosha sha [copied by Kinyoshi]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1998
- Accession number
- 4.1998.1
- Location
- Not on display
