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Japanese Masks      Japanese Masks on Woodblock Prints.

Japanese Masks
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Masks are an essential part of the Japanese noh theater whilst the actors of the Japanese kabuki theater perform without masks. But there is one exception. The kabuki play "Nanatsumen" (The Seven Masks) is a fast role change play with masks. This play and the noh theater are the background for images of Japanese masks shown on Japanese prints.
Japanese Masks in Noh Theater and Kabuki

Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima      Popular Kyoto Artist.

Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima
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In August of 2009 we received a new consignment of all hand-made woodblock prints by Japanese printmaker Katsuyuki Nishijima. Among them were many new (or old) designs that we had never seen before. With this page we want to share some of the new designs with you.
New Woodblock Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima

Zhu Liwen - Making a Woodblock      Handmade Woodblock Prints in Small Editions.

Zhu Liwen - Making a Woodblock
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In August of 2009 Ms. Zhu Liwen published her latest series of reduction woodblock prints. Five single sheetes titled "Object That Speaks". Zhu Liwen was so nice to document with a camera the process how the number 2 of the series was created. This page shows you 13 different steps of carving and printing.
Zhu Liwen - How to Make a Woodblock Print

Prints by Tsuchiya Koitsu - 1879-1949      Dramatic Landscape Prints.

Prints by Tsuchiya Koitsu - 1879-1949
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If you want to explain to a non-expert of Japanese prints what shin hanga is, show him ten images of landscape prints by Tsuchiya Koitsu. Although Koitsu Tsuchiya is by most not seen as important as Hasui Kawase, you will hardly find another landscape printmaker who incorporates so much the essence of shin hanga like this important Japanese printmaker of the first half of the twentieth century.
Prints by Koitsu Tsuchiya

Hundred Roles of Ichikawa Danjuro      One of Kunichika's Best Series.

Hundred Roles of Ichikawa Danjuro
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Kunichika Toyohara was called a "forgotten master" by Amy Reigle Newland in the only Kunichika biography I know of "Time Present and Time Past". During the last years of his life Kunichika designed a series of hundred kabuki roles played by one very popular actor of the time - Ichikawa Danjuro IX. Today the series is regarded as one of Kunichika's best print works.
The Print Series by Kunichika

Shijo Prints      Shijo - Under-Appreciated.

Shijo Prints
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Some flavors have an immediate appeal, such as the sweet faces of children in ukiyo-e; others are acquired tastes, and require repeated experience until the senses learn to appreciate the subtleties of the flavor.
Shijo Prints

Teruhide Kato - born 1936      Kyoto Romance.

Teruhide Kato - born 1936
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Teruhide Kato's beautiful woodblock prints can be enjoyed with a book about the artist's works titled "Kyoto Romance". The title characterizes his art prints perfectly. The serene images taken from Kyoto, the artist's residence, are like a big love romance with Kyoto and Japanese woodblock prints.
Teruhide Kato - Kyoto Romance

Ted Colyer - born 1947      17 Years in Japan.

Ted Colyer - born 1947
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Canadian artist Ted Colyer learned woodblock printmaking in traditional Japanese style by the great master Toshi Yoshida. He stayed in Japan for 17 years before he returned to Canada where he lives and works in beautiful Vancouver.
Ted Colyer - Biography

Zhu Liwen - Object That Speaks      Graduate of CNAFA.

Zhu Liwen - Object That Speaks
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Ms. Zhu Liwen, born in 1983 is a young but nevertheless smart and wise young lady, full of sensitivity towards life and our world, as if she had the experience of a long life. Astonishing. Her art works are affectionate, warm. Intellectual but not cold. They touch our hearts and our minds at the same time.
Zhu Liwen - Object That Speaks

Zheng Jianhui - Village's Voice      Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints

Zheng Jianhui - Village's Voice
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In August of 2009 we received three designs of a new series of reduction woodblock prints by Chinese printmaker Zheng Jianhui. The likeable young Chinese artists is fortunately (for us) one of those artists who comment their art works. Here is his statement about "Village's Voice".
Village Voice - by Zheng Jianhui

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