Catalog record · 目録番号 111221

Locomotive Workers

Artist / 作者: Wada Sanzo和田三造
Date / 年代: 1955
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / artelino
Digital image / 画像: 913 × 701 px
Published by / 公開者: 水野ナギ

Catalog note / 解説

"Zoku Showa Shokugyo E-zukushi" (Continuing Sketches of Occupations in Showa Era). Locomotive workers. The first of this large series was published by Nishinomiya Shoin in 1938 - 1943. It was very popular and even featured on the Asahi Newspapers everytime the new design was published. It was interrupted by World War II. After the war, Kyoto Hanga-in made the continuation of it. This series is an interesting document of the new as well as the old, dying occupations in Japan in early to mid 20th Century.

Image record / 画像情報

Artelino · 1955. · artelino

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