Artist Shiro Kasamatsu (1898-1992)
Title Spring at the Moat
Signature Shiro
Seal shiro
Printed 1957
Publisher Unsodo
Impression excellent - very good ... (later printing) embossed, "gei" watermarked at the lower left corner
Colours excellent
Condition excellent
Description "Ohori no Haru" Three swans swimming on a moat in the spring.
Format: Oban tate-e
Width 27.5 cm
Height 40.5 cm
Price $390
Shiro Kasamatsu was born in Tokyo in 1898. At the age of 13 he entered the painting school of Kaburagi Kiyokata - a master in traditional Japanese painting and printmaking. Kasamatsu was very talented, and beginning at a young age, his paintings were shown in various exhibitions.