Original Wada Sanzo Woodblock Print Evening Newspaper Seller Yukan-uri Showa #14 c.1939 14"W LS#164 Itomasu The form and painterly decoration

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

and national holidays

This particular lacquer is black and decorated in a makie gold bamboo with mother of pearl inlay motif

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 The form and painterly decorationWada 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