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Tadashi Nakayama (中山 正, Nakayama Tadashi, born 1927 Niigata, Niigata, died 2014) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Western painting. He studied oil painting at Tama Art College but left in 1947. [1] [2] [3]
Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print, Oxford, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796; Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amsterdam, Hotei. ISBN 9789074822657; OCLC 61666175
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e [1] artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603 ...
Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山 儀八郎, Okuyama Gihachirō, February 17, 1907 – October 1, 1981) was a 20th-century Japanese commercial artist and woodblock printmaker.He was a prolific artist of the shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga styles.
Kanae Yamamoto's "Fisherman" (1904). Sōsaku-hanga (創作版画, "creative prints") was an art movement of woodblock printing which was conceived in early 20th-century Japan. . It stressed the artist as the sole creator motivated by a desire for self-expression, and advocated principles of art that is "self-drawn" (自画 jiga), "self-carved" (自刻 jikoku) and "self-printed" (自摺 jizur
Shunga (春画, "spring image"); erotically themed art; Sōsaku-hanga (創作版画); an early 20th-century art movement of woodblock printing; Sumizuri-e; a type of monochromatic woodblock printing that uses only black ink; Surimono (摺物); privately commissioned prints for special occasions such as the New Year; Surishi (摺師); a printer
David Bull (born 11 November 1951) is a Canadian ukiyo-e woodblock printer and carver who heads the Mokuhankan studio in Asakusa, Tokyo. [1] [2] Born in Britain, Bull moved to Canada at the age of 5. He first discovered Japanese woodblocks while working in a music shop in 1980 in Toronto, at 28, and started making his own prints without formal ...
Utagawa Hirokage (歌川 広景), also known as Ichiyūsai Hirokage, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, who was active from about 1855 to 1865. He was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige I .