Wheel of Life      Subject on Thangka Paintings.

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The Wheel of Life is an iconographic theme found in Buddhist and especially Tibetan art. It symbolzes the circle of rebirth and existences.
Catalog Wheel of Life

Tibetan Tiger Rugs      Collectible Artifacts of Tomorrow.

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Tiger rugs are a special genre within the subject of Tibetan rugs. They were seen rather late in Western countries, only in the 1970s. Tiger rugs show one of more tigers, either vivid or as a tiger skin. These rugs were originally reserved for higher lamas and the Tibetan artistocracy. They symbolize the power and strength of their owners.
Catalog Tibetan Tiger Rugs

Wu Wanxi      

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Wu Wanxi was born in Yuxi of Yunnan Province in 1977. She graduated from the print department of Yunnan Arts University in 1999 and became a teacher of Yuxi Teacher's College. In 2007 she was making her Master degree of Fine Arts at Yunnan Arts University. Wu Wanxi is a young female artist famed for her special printmaking technique called 'mixed media of oil-based and water-based color prints'. Her favorite subjects are portraits - both modern and from the Culture Revolution period - of females with light and soft pastel colors.
Catalog Wu Wanxi

Waichi Hayashi      

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Waichi Hayashi was born in 1951 in Shizuoka prefecture. In 1974 he had graduated from the Department of Japanese Art at Kanazawa Art and Crafts College. The artist is active in more than one field of traditional Japanese arts. He works in woodblock prints, the pottery and ceramics and in suiboku-ga. These are black and white sumi-ink paintings.
Catalog Waichi Hayashi

Yoshitsuya Koko      

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Yoshitsuya was a pupil of Kuniyoshi. He worked as a printmaker and an illustrator. Best known are his prints with warriors and with subjects from Japanese legends and history. He also made Japanese tattoo designs (irezumi).
Catalog Yoshitsuya Koko

Yoshitoshi Mori      

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Yoshitoshi Mori is one of the best known sosaku hanga style artists although he started his career late in his life. He had studied painting and commercial design in Tokyo. Most of his life he worked as a designer and turned to printmaking at an age above fifty.
Catalog Yoshitoshi Mori

Yoshitora Utagawa      

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Yoshitora lived and worked in Edo (ancient name for Tokyo). He made many prints showing scenes in Edo. Famous and unique are his prints showing foreigners in Yokohama and flamboyant historical scenes from Japan's history. Especially his Yokohama prints sometimes have a naive charm like the paintings of the great French post-impressionist, Henri Rousseau.
Catalog Yoshitora Utagawa

Yoshitaki Utagawa      

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His original name was Nakai Yoshitaki. Yoshitaki was a pupil of Yoshiume. He became a member of the so-called Kamigata-e school. From about 1860 to 1880 he was a leading member of the Osaka school - famous for actor prints.
Catalog Yoshitaki Utagawa

Yoshisuke Funasaka      

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Yoshisuke Funasaka graduated from Tama Art College. He works in woodblock and silk screen. The artist used to integrate the shape of a lemon into his print designs, but abandoned this habit in the mid 1970s. Yoshisuke Funasaka is internationally renowned and has exhibited widely in the many of the International Print Shows (Biennales). The artist's medium is woodblock and silkscreen.
Catalog Yoshisuke Funasaka

Yoshimune Arai      

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also Yoshimune II
Catalog Yoshimune Arai