Yamamura Koka – The Heroine Koman in Tanba Yosaku

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published between 1922 and 1923. The current print is from an early edition.

Image size (excluding margins): 38.7 * 27.0 cm (15.2 * 10.6 in).

The print is in very good state. The paper is wavy at some places, and there are wrinkles in the outer margins.

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.

See an overview of Yamamura Koka's woodblock prints