Original Wada Sanzo Woodblock Print Evening Newspaper Seller Yukan-uri Showa #14 c.1939 14"W LS#164 Itomasu and national holidays

and national holidays

The form and painterly decoration place this work among the popular sobachoko made in regional kilns such as Arita or Imari

This is an antique Japanese Taisho era (c

Japanese kushi (combs) and kanzashi (hairpins) became expressions of a woman's character

Original Wada Sanzo Woodblock Print Evening Newspaper Seller Yukan-uri Showa #14 c.1939 14"W LS#164 Itomasu and national holidaysWada Sanz (18831967) Evening Newspaper Seller (, Ykan uri), No. 14 from Shwa Shokugy E zukushi (Japanese Vocations in Pictures) Vintage Japanese Shwa Era, c. 193940 The Shwa Shokugy E zukushi series began in 1938 and was published by Nishinomiya Shoin; the prewar sequence contains 48 prints, interrupted in 1943 during the Pacific War. This impression is from the original Nishinomiya Shoin edition, limited to 300 impressions. A cold, blustery winter