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Help describing / ID'ing Asian print/woodcut/ ??

Hello--- picked up this older print (would that be proper term for it?).  It has Asian writing of some sort next to the horse and then off to the side it is stamped with some sort of writing as well.   Can anyone tell me what I have and what this says ? 

 Thanks so much!

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It popped right up on an image search!
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thanks so much!  now I'm going to ask an even dumber question  but how does an image search work ?  Do you just go into google and insert a copy of the photo in there or what?

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Just some additional information that you may find helpful: the print features in this catalogue, issued by the Japanese firm Kyoto Hanga-In (see Pages 10 and 11):

 

http://www.koitsu.com/Research/Catalogs/KHI/Catalog_A/Catalog_A.htm

 

The catalogue dates from around 1952-53:

 

http://www.koitsu.com/Research/Catalogs/Catalogs.htm

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And info here about a portfolio of six of his horse prints, with yours featured on the cover:

http://www.jaodb.com/db/ItemDetail.asp?item=38239

 

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@maxine*j wrote:

And info here about a portfolio of six of his horse prints, with yours featured on the cover:

http://www.jaodb.com/db/ItemDetail.asp?item=38239


That link helpfully provides the name of the Kyoto Hanga-In company in Japanese:

 

京都版画院

 

I'm pretty sure the text in red at the right of the print includes these characters.

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That is not a dumb question. Put your cursor over the picture on here and do a right click. You should see choices; click on the one that says Search Google for Image. It's a wonderful tool that works best if the picture is of something on a plain background. If you have a goblet sitting on a washing machine, Google will show you pictures of washing machines.
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And if Janet's instructions don't work for you, because you don't use a MS Windows OS, don't have a Google account, don't have an app on a phone, or whatever, you can still do a Google image search.

 

Go to the Google main page:

https://www.google.com/ 

 

Click on "Images" in the upper right.  A new page will come up, with a new search bar:

https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

 

Click on the little camera icon for "Search By Image" and follow the prompts. 

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