| | Stockno.: | 21-102-2 | Artist: | Wada Sanzō 和田 三造 (1883-1967) | Description: | No.6. The shoe repair man and shoeshiner (Boot-blacking). From the series ‘Japanese vocations of the Shōwa era in pictures – Volume 2’ (Shōwa shokugyō ezukushi dai nishū 昭和職業繪盡 第二輯).
Published by Nishinomiya Shoin (Shinagawa Kiyoomi) October 1940.
Block-cutters: Hino Keikichi, Komeda Shintarō and Fujikawa Manjirō
Printer: Mitsumoto Kaichi
Accompanying text ponders the sudden increase of this vocation during the last five years in Tokyo at the time. Sanzō: ‘[..] It does not seem appropriate to a civilised existence that one should polish shoes and another have his shoes polished at the corner of the street.’ | 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. 30) | | | |
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