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Paul Binnie

The Torii at Miyajima
copyright Paul Binnie

April 2003: Paul Binnie announced the second print of his series of views of famous places in Japan.

The following text in apostrophes was taken from Paul Binnie's announcement.

The Torii at Miyajima

"The second print in my new woodblock series of Famous Views of Japan, the Torii at Miyajima, is nearing completion and will be ready for distribution to my collectors and friends in April 2003.

I visited Miyajima near Hiroshima shortly before leaving Japan in 1998, and when I went there, I was surprised to see that the Torii, the ritual gateway leading to the Shinto shrine of Utsukushima, stands on a very shallow beach, and as it was low tide, it was completely exposed. Having seen this famous gateway in unnumerable prints standing in deep waters of the Inland Sea, it came as a shock to realize that the waters were not particularly deep at all!

I conceived this design as a pendant to the first print of the series, Aka Fuji, which I released in November 2002, and the same theme of reflection appears in the foreground, while this time the image shows the afterglow of setting sun, rather than the dawn of the Fuji print.

It is printed on the same 100% mulberry washi from Iwate Prefecture, but this time uses 27 printing stages to achieve its effects of shading including embossing in the water in the foreground, which is also overprinted in mica. I will shortly be posting these stages at my web site - www.paulbinnie.co.uk - in a newly expanded Woodblock Prints section.

Again, the Miyajima edition will be 100, and it is the same Dai-Oban size - 42 x 29 cm, appr. 16 x 11 inches. The illustration is scanned at fairly low resolution, so the colors and shading of the actual print will be more subtle than those in the picture. Embossing too, does not show here as it does on the print itself."

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