Artist Shiro KASAMATSU (1898-1991) Title "Mt Fuji from Lake Ashino, Hakone" ("Hakone, Ashino-ko no Fuji") Date 1935; (early post-War printing) Provenance Private placement. Consigned by family of Navy Hospital Corps servicewoman Verna Woodrich stationed in Yokohama/Tokyo 1947. Series na ...
A self-cut is when the artist does his own printing blocks (which Shiro did) or has his own blocks done privately, eliminating the publisher. The tradition was that the artist would do the picture and give it to a publisher who would have the blocks carved. Not saying 'NO' doesn't ...