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Yuki Rei, born 1928, is a leading Japanese female artist who works in the technique of woodblock prints. She combines traditional subjects and the old technique of the Japanese print with a modern style. Her works are in famous museums all over the world.

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Student of Takumi Shinagawa

Yuki Rei learned woodblock printmaking as a student of Takumi Shinagawa. The artist exhibits regularly at the prestigious, annual CWAJ print shows.

Yuki Rei is the co-author of a famous book about printmaking written together with Toshi Yoshida.

International Collections

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• British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
• National Museum of International Art, Osaka, Japan.
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA.
• Musée Denon, Charlon-sur-Saone, France.
• Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan.
• Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan.
• Sakima Museum, Okinawa.

Exhibitions

• 1996 - Solo Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan.
• 1999 - Shunyo-kai Art Exhibition, Tokyo (prize was awarded).
• 2000 - Han 17 Exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
• More than 20 CWAJ Print Shows.

Woodblock Prints by Yuki Rei

Yuki Rei makes modern designs of traditional Japanese subjects in traditional woodblock technique.

Francis Blakemore summarized Rei Yuki's art as

"These airy, generous prints are delicate fantasies, scenes of a landscape that can exist only in the imagination ... The works are light, yet the source of the light is hidden ... It is a light defined by shadows, creating a mood of timeless suspension... subdued coloration and shading; and magical, waving forms together create a locus, a place that is both definite and infinite...".

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Kazuyuki Ohtsu - born 1935
Nocturne
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Shufu Miyoamoto - born 1950
Window by the Sea
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Kaoru Saito - born 1931
End of the Summer
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Ido Masao - born 1945
Red Gate
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Dieter Wanczura
(July 2009)

Literature for this Yuki Rei biography

Frances Blakemore, "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9.

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