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Japanese Woodblock Prints
Misty River
copyright Shufu Miyamoto

Shufu Miyamoto is a leading Japanese printmaker. His woodblock prints show romantic landscapes or nature scenes in soft colors and intensive use of "bokashi" (color gradations). The artist has developed an unmatched skill of displaying water, haze and mist.

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From Painting to Traditional Woodblocks

Shufu Miyamoto was born in 1950 in Fukuoka prefecture. He studied oil painting under Ioka Osamu. When he began creating art prints, he first used the techniques of silkscreen and lithography. Later Shufu Miyamoto changed to the old Japanese technique of woodblock printing.

Landscapes, Water and Mist

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Silkscreen Printing Method
Evening Calm
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Shufu Miyamoto has established himself well with landscapes made in woodblock technique. His style reminds somewhat of impressionist paintings. Shufu Miyamoto's works express romantic feelings and a sense for moods created with the means of compositions, colors and last but not least the mastering of a superb craftsmanship. His specialities are the display of water, mist and hazy athmosheres.

Woodblock Prints in Limited Editions

The intricate nature of Shufu Miyamoto's woodblock prints requires not only a high level of skill but the creation is also a time-consuming process. For each color, the artist has to carve a separate block. And the intensive use of gradations (in Japanese: bokashi) is difficult to achieve. His woodblock prints therefore are not cheap. Edition sizes are typically from 100 to 200.

Collections

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Woodblock Prints
Willow Rain
copyright Shufu Miyamoto

• Asia Society Museum, New York, U.S.A.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.
• Haifa Museum, Israel.
• Auckland Museum, New Zealand.

Exhibitions

• 1984 - Solo Exhibition, New York.
• 1985 - Art Festival of Kyoto Galleries (Prize).
• Twenty or more annual CWAJ Exhibitions, Tokyo, Japan.

Woodblock Prints by Shufu Miyamoto

Here are a few more examples of fine woodblock prints by Shufu Miyamoto that were sold in past online art auctions of artelino.

Shufu Miyamoto I

Ryohei Tanaka - Biography
Canal
copyright Shufu Miyamoto

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Modern Japanese Prints
Shadows on the Water
copyright Shufu Miyamoto

Shufu Miyamoto I

Shigeko Inoue - Biography
Shrine in the Spring
copyright Shufu Miyamoto

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Yoshiaki Kita - Biography
Field of Snow
copyright Shufu Miyamoto

Dieter Wanczura
(June 2009)

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