Lot Essay
For the complete set of woodcuts illustrating The Key, see Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print, ed. Jennifer Boynton (Kamakura: Munakata Museum, 2002), pl. 16, p. 108.
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Property From a Private West Coast Collection
Munakata Shiko (1903-1975)
Mukotai no saku (Body lying on its back), from The Key: Illustrations for Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Novel
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Munakata Shiko (1903-1975)
Mukotai no saku (Body lying on its back), from The Key: Illustrations for Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Novel
Woodcut: signed in pencil in Japanese Shiko, in Roman script Munakata and dated 1958.5.31., pine needles symbol, sealed in red Shiko
9 x 11in. (22.9 x 27.9cm.)
Mukotai no saku (Body lying on its back), from The Key: Illustrations for Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Novel
Woodcut: signed in pencil in Japanese Shiko, in Roman script Munakata and dated 1958.5.31., pine needles symbol, sealed in red Shiko
9 x 11in. (22.9 x 27.9cm.)
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