Collotype picture postcard 〈Five Seasonal Themes Harukaoru Tsubame〉Saburo Ota

Size: 14.0 x 9.0cm Printing method: Glass plate (collotype multicolor printing)
Work information: Saburo Ota picture postcard museum collection

Saburo Ota
Born in Aichi Prefecture between 1884 and 1969. Studied Japanese painting under Kogyo Terasaki and Western painting under Seiki Kuroda. He is a multi-talented painter who has written books such as "Kanejou Yabanashi" and "Musashino no Kusa to Hito", and also illustrated illustrations under the name of Ryuzo Kimishima. His representative work is "Café Woman".

○ What is Collotype?
Offset printing, a common printing method, expresses colors and shades with a density of small halftone dots, but collotype expresses continuous gradation, so it expresses fine details that are closer to the real thing than photographs. .