Original Japanese Wada Sanzo 1939 Woodblock Print "Photography Unit" Military Showa 1939 15"W LS#030 Obi A finely hand-carved wooden bear

A finely hand-carved wooden bear clutching a salmon in its jaws

Condition: Good

Carved from native woods such as katsura

Tang is unsigned (mumei)

This was high fired for lasting durability

Original Japanese Wada Sanzo 1939 Woodblock Print "Photography Unit" Military Showa 1939 15"W LS#030 Obi A finely hand-carved wooden bearWada Sanz (18831967) Photography Unit (, Shashinhan), from Shwa Shokugy E zukushi (Japanese Vocations in Pictures) Vintage Japanese Shwa Era, 1939 The Shwa Shokugy E zukushi series began in 1938 and was published by Nishinomiya Shoin. The prewar sequence contains 48 prints; the series was interrupted in 1943 during the Pacific War and resumed in 1954 under the title Zoku Shwa Shokugy E zukushi, published by Kyoto Hanga in. This impression is from the