Sunday 10 September 2017

Artist - Murakami Matsujiro

An artistic print entitled "Take off in high spirits" found in the November 1944 issue of the vintage magazine "Koku Shonen". Created by artist Murakami Matsujiro it features a Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boat or as is more commonly known in Japan, "Nishiki Taitei" . 
For more on the artist check the older post, here.
 

1 comment:

D. Chouinard said...

Very painterly, and quite nice. I see stuff like this and wonder what ever happened to the originals. However, given the destruction rained down on Japan late in the war, I have a reasonable idea of what could happen.