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Kaoru Saito I

The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji - Sawarabi
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Kaoru Saito, born 1931, is a great Japanese artist who creates beautiful art prints depicting beautiful women in mezzotint technique. We have little information about the artist. But we have several of these wonderful, sensitive female images to show - prints that we sold in our art auctions.

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Born in Kanagawa Prefecture

Kaoru Saito was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1931. He studied fine art under Tsuruta Goro and Arai from 1948 until 1950. The artist is a member of Shunyo-kai, an important Japanese association of printmakers.

Beautiful, Sensitive Female Images

Kaoru Saito II

Utamaro Kitagawa - Biography
The Tale of Genji - Butterflies
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The depiction of beautiful women has been a special subject of Japanese printmaking for centuries. Utamaro Kitagawa (1750-1806), for example, is the best known for this genre called 'bijin-e', images of beautiful women.

Kaori Saito combines an old, traditional Japanese theme and a Western technique, mezzotint. The traditional Japanese woodblock print technique does not allow such a degree of details and gradation. The mezzotint technique is much better for these close to photo-realistic images with intensive light and shadow effects. Kaoru Saito's female images have a compelling touch of romanticism and of slightly erotic sensuality.

Kaoru Saito Gallery

The edition sizes of the Kaoru Saito prints that we have sold so far, reached from 15 to 85. Here are a few more of these mesmerizing images.

Kaoru Saito III

Japanese Prints - Home
Two Beauties
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Kaoru Saito IV

Japanese Prints
Ocean
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Kaoru Saito V

Kiyoshi Saito - Biography
Thoughts
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Kaoru Saito VI

Ido Masao - Biography
Flower
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Kaoru Saito VII

Katsunori Hamanishi- Biography
Lamp
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Kaoru Saito VIII

Takahashi Ushio - Biography
Broken Ornament
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Dieter Wanczura
(June 2009)

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