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MUNAKATA SHIKO (1903-1975)
The "way" of the woodcut and original woodblocks for the illustrations
Copy no. 16 and copy no. 45 of SHIKO MUNAKATA, author and illustrator, The "way" of the woodcut, Brooklyn [N.Y.]: Pratt Adlib Press, 1961; (30.4 x 20.6cm.), hand-sewn and bound in blue paper covers printed in rust-red with the title in Japanese
Comprising [copy no. 16 and 45]: one leaf mustard yellow paper, one page blank, one page woodlbock-printed sumizuri-e self-portrait of the artist and titled in the image New York nitte (in New York) and dated on the image 1959., title page (The "way" of the woodcut/MUNAKATA/Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, 1961), one page with copyright 1961 Pratt Adlib Press, one page woodblock-printed sumizuri-e of a goddess and Japanese title identical to that on the cover, one orange-colored page, two pp. text on orange paper, one page orange paper, one woodblock-printed sumizuri-e printed with a standing Bodhisattva and the inscription in large characters Niwa mae kashiwa giko and dated 1959, on page text, one blank page, one page text giving the copy no. 16 and 45 respectively in red ink, one blank page, two pp. mustard-yellow paper
Following the third sumizuri-e illustration is a short explanatory text: Shiko Munakata, while a guest instructor at the Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, in 1959, wrote the foregoing essay on the woodcut and cut the accompanying three blocks for publication by the Center. Block one, "At New York", is a self-portrait. The classical inscriptions cut in blocks two and three, respectively, read: "No footprints show, where flowers grow deep" and "The child plants an oak tree in the garden".
Accompanied by the original woodblocks of the first illustration "Self portrait" and the third illustration "Bodhisattva and inscription" [translated above].
The "way" of the woodcut and original woodblocks for the illustrations
Copy no. 16 and copy no. 45 of SHIKO MUNAKATA, author and illustrator, The "way" of the woodcut, Brooklyn [N.Y.]: Pratt Adlib Press, 1961; (30.4 x 20.6cm.), hand-sewn and bound in blue paper covers printed in rust-red with the title in Japanese
Comprising [copy no. 16 and 45]: one leaf mustard yellow paper, one page blank, one page woodlbock-printed sumizuri-e self-portrait of the artist and titled in the image New York nitte (in New York) and dated on the image 1959., title page (The "way" of the woodcut/MUNAKATA/Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, 1961), one page with copyright 1961 Pratt Adlib Press, one page woodblock-printed sumizuri-e of a goddess and Japanese title identical to that on the cover, one orange-colored page, two pp. text on orange paper, one page orange paper, one woodblock-printed sumizuri-e printed with a standing Bodhisattva and the inscription in large characters Niwa mae kashiwa giko and dated 1959, on page text, one blank page, one page text giving the copy no. 16 and 45 respectively in red ink, one blank page, two pp. mustard-yellow paper
Following the third sumizuri-e illustration is a short explanatory text: Shiko Munakata, while a guest instructor at the Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, in 1959, wrote the foregoing essay on the woodcut and cut the accompanying three blocks for publication by the Center. Block one, "At New York", is a self-portrait. The classical inscriptions cut in blocks two and three, respectively, read: "No footprints show, where flowers grow deep" and "The child plants an oak tree in the garden".
Accompanied by the original woodblocks of the first illustration "Self portrait" and the third illustration "Bodhisattva and inscription" [translated above].