Yamamura Koka – Actor Morita Kan’ya XIII as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published in 1921. The current print was printed in the Heisei period (1989 – 2019).

Image size (excluding margins): 40.2 * 27.2 cm (15.8 * 10.7 in).

The print is in excellent condition.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

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Yamamura Koka (1885-1942) started as a painter but was noticed by famous woodblock print publisher Watanabe Shozaburo, who then published a number of prints of Yamamura Koka’s designs. After this more prints of Yamamura Koka were published by a society specifically created for this purpose by a group of supporters, or self-published with support by the society. Yamamura Koka excelled at portraits and his prints in this genre are among some of the best of the Shin-hanga movement.

An overview of the woodblock prints by Yamamura Koka can be found here.

See an overview of Yamamura Koka's woodblock prints