15 Japanese woodcuts
By: produced by 9 members of the Japanese Council to Promote Graphic Arts
Contributors: Kitaoka, Fumio, 1918-; Koguchi, Jiro; Nii, Hiroharu, 1911-1974; Suzuki, Kenji, 1906-1987; Takidaira, Jirō, 1921-2009; Ueno, Makoto, 1909-1980; Watanabe, Shin; Yui, Shōji, 1908-1998; Japanese Council to Promote Graphic Arts; Nisei Progressives
Publisher: Nisei Progressives
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Wood-engraving; Exhibitions; Wood-engraving, Japanese
Other titles: Fifteen Japanese woodcuts; [Heiwa o warera ni]
Notes: Prints from an exhibition organized by Kohshi Ohta, Tokyo.

Title from item.

Prints measure 36 x 22 cm.

"The cover. Picture: "Workers of the Hitachi Factory," by Hiroharu Nii".

Gift ; Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation; 2003; (DLC/PP - 2003:162.1990).

Each print has caption in English.
Table of contents: title: (from captions): Woman farmer / Shin Watanabe; title: News of the day / Shoji Yui; title: Harvest / Jiro Takidaira; title: Farmer / Jiro Takidaira; title: Farmers in winter / Jiro Takidaira; title: May Day, Tokyo, 1951 / Kohshi Ohta; title: The last May Day before the War, 1932 / Makoto Ueno; title: Unemployed workers, Hitachi, 1949 / Hiroharu Nii; title: Collective bargaining, Hitachi, 1949 / Hiroharu Nii; title: Women preventing arrest of union leader, Takaogi Coal Mine Strike, 1949 / Hiroharu Nii; title: Layoff protest at Hitachi, 1949 / Hiroharu Nii; title: Mrs. Ouchi: "You're starving me! Cut my throat!", Hitachi, 1949 / Hiroharu Nii; title: The landlord visits the farmer, from "The song of the pig" / Kenji Suzuki; title: Disabled vet, posters: Against War!; title: For Over-all Peace Treaty!; title: Against Rearmament! / Jiro Koguchi; title: "Water, Water!"; title: from a Travelogue in Manchuria / Fumio Kitaoka.