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Hagiwara Hideo - 1913-2007 Master of Japanese Abstract Prints.
Hagiwara Hideo is one of the most successful and internationally best established Japanese print artists of the second half of the twentieth century. With his constant search for new themes, his main emphasis on abstraction and his experiments with a mix of different printing techniques, he is typical for the artist generation after world war II.
Biography of Hagiwara Hideo
Baido Hosai - 1848-1920 Meiji Printmaker.
Collectors of Meiji prints know names like Kunichika or Chikanobu well. Baido Hosai is not so much in the awareness of friends of Japanese woodblock prints. In my view it is time for a revaluation of this Meiji artist. Baido Hosai's triptychs of kabuki scenes are at least as good as those by his contemporary Kunichika Toyohara.
Baido Hosai - Biography
Yamataka Noboru - born 1926 Moku Hanga.
Moku hanga artist Yamataka Noboru, born 1927, has not come to our attention until recently. That is probably because we did not receive any consignments of works by this artist - until recently. Now we know what we nearly missed. But it is never too late. For collectors of modern Japanese prints Yamataka Noboru is a MUST HAVE in our view.
Biography and Prints by Yamataka Noboru
Body Tattoos by Paul Binnie Images of Japanese Body Tattoos.
Paul Binnie, born 1967, a printmaker and painter from Scotland, is in the footsteps of old Japanese ukiyo-e masters. Woodblock prints in Japanese tradition but with his own, individual and modern characteristics, have made him a famous artist all over the world. Since the 1990s he has created a number of woodblock prints depicting body tattoos.
Japanese Body Tattooes
Ishiwata Koitsu - 1897-1987 Landscapes in Shin Hanga Style.
Ishiwata Koitsu is easily confused with Tsuchiya Koitsu. Both artists designed landscape woodblock prints, and both worked for the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. But while the prints by Tsuchiya Koitsu are well known and all over the Internet, Ishiwata Koitsu is little known, his prints are rare and expensive. This article explains why. Read and learn about the true nature of shin hanga.
Ishiwata Koitsu - Biography
10 Types of Female Nudes Forbidden as Pornography.
The Japanese painter and printmaker Ishikawa Toraji, 1875-1964 created a series of ten voluptuous nudes title "Ten Types of Female Nudes". The Japanese authorities banned the series for its "pornographic" nature.
Female Nudes by Ishikawa Toraji
Koichi Okada - 1907-? 12 Views of Mount Fuji.
Koichi Okada is known among collectors of Japanese prints for a series of beautiful woodblocks showing Mount Fuji. The series was published by Unsodo publisher in Kyoto after world war II.
Koichi Okada - Famous Views of Japan
Japanese Tattoos Japanese Tattoo Prints.
30 years ago only persons on the edge of society used to wear tattoos in Europe, North America and Japan - like prison convicts, prostitutes, or pimps. This has changed considerably over the last decades. Today many young people including women have tattoos. This has lead to a lively interest in old tattoo designs that one can find on Japanese woodblock prints.
Tattoos on Japanese Woodblock Prints
Ota Masamitsu - 1892-1975 Kabuki Actor Portraits.
Ota Masumitsu, 1892-1975, is one of the lesser known artists of the Japanese shin hanga art movement who designed woodblock prints of kabuki actors. But that means in no way that his prints are inferior to those of Natori Shunsen or others. Ota Masamitsu is a tip for collectors of shin hanga and of modern kabuki prints.
Ota Masamitsu - Biography
Tiger Rugs on the Loom Photographs from Nepal.
Our next shipment of traditional rugs from Nepal is expected for early autumn of 2009. We ordered two dozen carpets in traditional sizes of 90 by 180 cm = 3' by 6' and exclusively with old tiger designs. Here are latest photographs form our partner in Nepal showing how our order is currently in the making.
Tiger Rugs from Nepal
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