Description
The prescence of the date on the bottom left margin indicates that this print is an early impression of this design. For later printings, the date is omitted.
About the artist
Born in 1889, Shodo Kawarazaki worked as a print designer and painter in Kyoto. Many of his prints were published in the 1950s with the publisher Unsodo. Shodo's bright floral imagery found an eager audience among American GIs during the occupation.