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About This Print
Wada captures four young girls, one caring for a sleeping baby brother in a onbuhimo おんぶひも, playing the children's game of otedama お手玉 in which bean bags are tossed accompanied by varied tasks. They appear to be playing in a room used for weaving. Coloring books lay scattered about.The copy of the print in the fine art collection of St. Catherine University has the name of the publisher Kyoto hanga-in 京都版画院 in the lower right margin along with the name of the carver 彫Fujikawa 藤川, printer 摺 Ohno 大野 and the characters 初版 indicating a "first edition". They date the print to ca. 1950.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2071 |
| Title or Description | Girls Playing Otedama (untitled) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Wada Sanzō (1883-1967) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal of Artist | |
| Publication Date | c. 1950s (print does not carry a date) |
| Publisher | Kyoto hanga-in 京都版画院 |
| Edition | not a first edition |
| Carver | Fujikawa 藤川 |
| Printer | possibly the printer whose name appears on the first edition Ohno 大野 |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - light toning |
| Genre | shin hanga |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | dai ōban |
| H x W Paper | 11 3/16 x 14 13/16 in. (28.4 x 37.6 cm) |
| H x W Image | 10 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (27.3 x 36.8) |
| Collections This Print | Minneapolis Institute of Art 2019.78.483; St. Catherine University Fine Art Collection 2013.0.895 |
| Reference Literature | |
6/1/2021 created
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