| | Stockno.: | 21-102-6 | Artist: | Wada Sanzō 和田 三造 (1883-1967) | Description: | No 14. Evening paper vendor. From the series ‘Japanese vocations of the Shōwa era in pictures – Volume I’ (Shōwa shokugyō ezukushi dai isshū 昭和職業繪盡第一輯).
Published by Nishinomiya Shoin (Shinagawa Kiyoomi) from 1 July 1939 - 1 November 1941.
Block-cutters: Hino Keikichi, Komeda Shintarō and Fujikawa Manjirō
Printer: Mitsumoto Kaichi
Paper vendors are bracing themselves against the cold evening wind, the day´s headlines written in large red characters. The majority of the figures in this print were Western dress, just one figure is seen wearing Japanese garments and the traditional wooden geta footwear. | Signed: | Sanzō plus artist's seal. | Size: | Oban | Condition: | Very good impression and colour, slightly toned in the margins. | Price: | Euro 275 SOLD | Reference: | (see NnH no.14) | | | |
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