Due to the problem that fake prints based on the works of Kaii Higashiyama, a representative Japanese painter after the war, were distributed, the Police Agency was produced by a painter in Osaka and the owner of a workshop in Nara prefecture. It is planned to be arrested on the 27th on suspicion of violating the copyright law for being involved in sales and sales.
More than 100 fake prints have been confirmed so far, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the relationship.
Suspected of violating the copyright law are a painter in his 50s who ran an art gallery in Osaka City and the owner of a print studio in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture.
A survey of 10 works by Japanese painters Kaii Higashiyama, Ikuo Hirayama, and Tamako Kataoka, which was made by a painter that fake prints had been distributed in department stores in Tokyo and Osaka for several years. It became clear in.
As a result of an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department in response to a criminal accusation from the union, the owner of this painter and workshop was involved in the production and sale of fake prints based on Kaii Higashiyama's work "Kusa Aomu". It turned out that there was a suspicion.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to arrest the two on the 27th, and will investigate the details in the future.
In addition, as a result of appraisal of prints brought in from owners etc. by the appraisal agency in Tokyo, at least 120 points have been confirmed as fake so far, the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the relationship. ..