Edutainment > Ido Masao - born 1945

Ido Masao I

Koetsu Temple
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Ido Masao. born 1945, is a very succesful, contemporary Japanese printmaker. His success formula is simple and powerful. He combines the old traditional Japanese woodblock technique with Japanese sterotype subjects like Japanese gardens, romantic views of famous Japanese landmarks, images from the Japanese Bunraku theater or old Japanese villages.

Japanese Disneyland?

Art friends who are a bit knowledgeable with Japanese prints, may immediately be reminded of the shin hanga art movement of the first half of the century. The similarity is not so much about in style but in the selection of subjects.

Ido Masao shows his viewers a kind of Disneyland Japan that is hard to find in today's industrialized Japan. It is the same concept that the shin hanga artists applied under guidance by Watanabe Shozaburo. And like the shin hanga artists, Ido Masao is successful. And for heaven's sake, what is wrong when artists make beautiful art works that people like. Nothing wrong in my view - as long as the art works are well made. And Ido Masao's woodblock prints are beautiful, fine works of art.

Art Training and Career of Ido Masao

Ido Masao II

Keishun-in in the Autumn
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Ido Masao was born in 1945 in Manchuria. The artist studied in Kyoto, a city with a long tradition as a center for arts and artisan products. Kyoto is renowned for its excellent art training facilities since the 19th century. And Masao Ido has become a typical Kyoto artist, making art for the people based on excellent craftsmanship.

The artist is also known as a teacher to Seiji Sano, another successful Japanese woodblock printmaker.

Views from Kyoto

Ido Masao - Views of Kyoto I

Kiyomizu Temple in Evening Glow
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Ido Masao - Views of Kyoto II

Yasaka Pagoda in Winter
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Ido Masao - Views of Kyoto III

Town Scene in Kyoto
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Winter Scenes

Ido Masao - Winter Scenes I

Kyoto Winter
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Ido Masao - Winter Scenes II

Gion in Winter
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Views from Kobe

Kobe Views I

View of Kobe
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Kobe Views II

China Town at Kobe
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Kobe Views III

Sunset at Kobe
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Bunraku

Ido Masao - Bunraku I

Bunraku Puppet - Musume
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Ido Masao - Bunraku II

Bunraku Puppet - Bunshichi
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Japanese Gardens, Villages and Landscapes

Ido Masao - Japanese Gardens I

Renge Temple
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Ido Masao - Japanese Gardens II

Myoshin Temple
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Ido Masao - Japanese Gardens III

Enryaku Temple
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Ido Masao - Japanese Gardens IV

Autumn in Miyama
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Ido Masao - Japanese Gardens V

Kyomi Pass
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Ido Masao - Japanese Gardens VI

Entrance to a Garden
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Exhibitions of Ido Masao

• 1998 - Solo Exhibition in Sendai.
• 1999 - Solo Exhibition in Tokyo.
• 2003 - Traveling Solo Exhibition, Japan.
• 2008 - Twenty years with CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo.

Collections

• Shaanxi, China.
• City of Florence, Italy.
• City of Graz, Austria.
• Chicago Botanic Garden.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Author: Dieter Wanczura
(June 2009)

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