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Vintage Joichi Hoshi Original Japanese Color Woodblock - "The Scorpion", 1970 in linen wrapped wood frame. Signed and numbered 104/150. …
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Vintage Joichi Hoshi Original Japanese Color Woodblock - "The Scorpion", 1970 in linen wrapped wood frame. Signed and numbered 104/150. Purchased from Kanda's Gallery B-O-Q in Toyko in the 1970s and hand carried back to the USA.
Joichi Hoshi was born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan. After teaching in Taiwan, Joichi Hoshi returned to Japan in 1946 to study oil painting at Musashino College of Fine Arts.
Later he taught himself woodblock printmaking. He started his printmaking career by depicting star constellations and galaxies. In the early 1970s, he began to specialize in images of trees. The tree prints are intricately made using the technique of the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking and are sometimes refined with silver or gold pigments.
Joichi Hoshi exhibited at the Tokyo International Print Biennials in 1959, 1961 and 1963 and at the International Print Biennal of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1967. Hoshi died on June 17, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Dimensions
- 12.5ʺW × 1.5ʺD × 10ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Japanese
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Animals
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- Japan
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Pen and Ink
- Wood
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gray
- Condition Notes
- Very good Very good less
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