Original Vintage Masao Maeda Japanese Woodblock Print "Fall Sun" for Sale

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Original Vintage Masao Maeda Japanese Woodblock Print "Fall Sun" For Sale

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Original Vintage Masao Maeda Japanese Woodblock Print "Fall Sun":
$160.00

From Wikipedia: Masao Maeda (前田政雄, December, 1904 - March 27, 1974) was a woodblock print artist, born in Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. In 1923 Maeda met Hiratsuka Un'ichi, a leader of the sosaku-hanga "creative prints" movement. In 1925 he relocated to Tokyo and joined the Kawabata Painting School. He studied Western-style painting (Yōga) with Umehara Ryuzauro and started work in oils. He learned woodblock techniques via his association with the Yoyogi Group of print artists who met at Hiratsuka's house in the 1930s, and by 1940 Maeda was solely working as a printmaker.

Maeda joined the Ichimoku-kai1 (First Thursday Society), a sosaku-hanga group led by Onchi Koshiro. He contributed to One Hundred New Views of Japan in 1940, "the two Kitsutsuki Hanga-shu collections (1942-3) and nos 3-6 of the Ichimokushu collections (1947-50), as well as Tokyo Kaiko Zue (Scenes of Lost Tokyo) (1945) and Nihon Minzoku Zufu (1946)."

There is a dot of yellow in the lower left of the image - practically off the plate. This yellow seems to be the same as the shade used in the woodblock, so I strongly believe that this was introduced in manufacture. It is not visible when matted. See photos for more information.