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Before Dawn
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Sano Seiji is one of today's successful artists who live and work in Kyoto or in the rural areas around the old imperial city. The favorite subject of these artists is the beauty of old Japan. Sano Seiji combines the woodblock technique and romantic subjects in a masterly way. The results are images with a touch of impressionism.

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Student of Ido Masao

Sano Seiji was born in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. In 1978 he moved to Kyoto, a city with a long tradition of fine arts and handicraft. His teacher in woodblock printmaking was Ido Masao.

Like his teacher, Sano Seiji uses the medium of woodblocks. His subjects are similar to those of his master. He shows rural landscapes and nature scenes. But Sano Seiji's uses less brilliant colors. His style is more detailed and sometimes even reminds us of impressionist paintings.

Old Japan

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Ido Masao - Biography
Old District in Kyoto
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The old imperial city of Kyoto with its academies and schools for arts and handicraft is an ideal ground for the fine arts. Over the last decades a certain art style has developed around the larger area of Kyoto.

The common bond is the subject of "old Japan". For instance old Japanese farmhouses with thatched roofs that are now disappearing, landscape scenes, rural Japan in the mountainous region around Kyoto, the four seasons with harsh winters and a beautiful, but short spring time period. But also images from old houses and shops from the Gion district in Kyoto fit into this trend of "romantic Japan".

Kyoto Printmakers

I am inclined to speak of a "Kyoto Printmaking School". The artists' usual medium is the traditional Japanese woodblock with a few exceptions like Brian Williams (etchings). Well known artists of this "Kyoto School" are for instance the deceased Clifton Karhu (Kyoto scenes) or the very successful Katsuyuki Nishijima and artists like Ido Masao, Hideaki Kato and Yuichiro Kato (photographic silkscreen prints), Joshua Rome (now back in the USA), Tatsuo Kawashima, Koichi Maeda, Kazuyuki Ohtsu and many more.

Exhibitions of Sano Seiji

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Clifton Karhu - Biography
Snow in the Afternoon
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• 2001 - Solo exhibition, Shizuoka, Japan.
• 2002 - Solo exhibition Tokyo, Japan.
• 2003 - Solo exhibition Tokyo, Japan.

Sano Seiji has participated several times in the prestigious annual CWAJ print shows.

Collections

• City of Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA.

Dieter Wanczura
(July 2009)

More Woodblock Prints by Sano Seiji

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Joshua Rome - Biography
Moon Light
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Sano Seiji V

Katsuyuki Nishijima - Biography
Village in Snow
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Sano Seiji VI

Kazuyuki Ohtsu - Woodblock Prints
Deep Snow
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