"Woman at Kotatsu"
Our March 2024 Print has arrived!
Designed by: Shinsui Ito
Carved and Printed by: Brandon Johnson
About the Print
Once again, we return not the furthest flung reaches of a once popular painter’s portfolio of ukiyo-e designs for our March Print.
Ito was a pseudonym of a Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in the early Taisho and Showa periods of Japan. He was one of the foremost names of the shin-hanga art movement, which revitalized the traditional art form after it began to decline with the advent of photography in the early 20th century.
Although he was known for being heavily involved in the shin-hanga movement, many of his print designs lean far more toward the more standard ukiyo-e prints of the previous decades, both in theme and in line work. As with this print, there is still a heavy emphasis on the taste and style of the line work. However, where it deviates from ukiyo-e would be in its depiction of this particular woman. She is arranged with a slightly more modern taste, a large departure from the images that came out of the Edo period.
This quaint postcard sized print is the end result of many hours of slowly chipping away at hard Japanese mountain cherry, and vigorous printing on handmade Japanese mulberry paper (Echizen Kozo). In total this print is composed of 10 different block faces ( 1 key block and 9 color blocks), and 11 different printing impressions.
We hope you will enjoy this print for many years to come, and we hope that you will keep an eye out for the next prints to come in the following months!
Thank you again!
-Brandon
Our March 2024 Print has arrived!
Designed by: Shinsui Ito
Carved and Printed by: Brandon Johnson
About the Print
Once again, we return not the furthest flung reaches of a once popular painter’s portfolio of ukiyo-e designs for our March Print.
Ito was a pseudonym of a Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in the early Taisho and Showa periods of Japan. He was one of the foremost names of the shin-hanga art movement, which revitalized the traditional art form after it began to decline with the advent of photography in the early 20th century.
Although he was known for being heavily involved in the shin-hanga movement, many of his print designs lean far more toward the more standard ukiyo-e prints of the previous decades, both in theme and in line work. As with this print, there is still a heavy emphasis on the taste and style of the line work. However, where it deviates from ukiyo-e would be in its depiction of this particular woman. She is arranged with a slightly more modern taste, a large departure from the images that came out of the Edo period.
This quaint postcard sized print is the end result of many hours of slowly chipping away at hard Japanese mountain cherry, and vigorous printing on handmade Japanese mulberry paper (Echizen Kozo). In total this print is composed of 10 different block faces ( 1 key block and 9 color blocks), and 11 different printing impressions.
We hope you will enjoy this print for many years to come, and we hope that you will keep an eye out for the next prints to come in the following months!
Thank you again!
-Brandon
Our March 2024 Print has arrived!
Designed by: Shinsui Ito
Carved and Printed by: Brandon Johnson
About the Print
Once again, we return not the furthest flung reaches of a once popular painter’s portfolio of ukiyo-e designs for our March Print.
Ito was a pseudonym of a Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in the early Taisho and Showa periods of Japan. He was one of the foremost names of the shin-hanga art movement, which revitalized the traditional art form after it began to decline with the advent of photography in the early 20th century.
Although he was known for being heavily involved in the shin-hanga movement, many of his print designs lean far more toward the more standard ukiyo-e prints of the previous decades, both in theme and in line work. As with this print, there is still a heavy emphasis on the taste and style of the line work. However, where it deviates from ukiyo-e would be in its depiction of this particular woman. She is arranged with a slightly more modern taste, a large departure from the images that came out of the Edo period.
This quaint postcard sized print is the end result of many hours of slowly chipping away at hard Japanese mountain cherry, and vigorous printing on handmade Japanese mulberry paper (Echizen Kozo). In total this print is composed of 10 different block faces ( 1 key block and 9 color blocks), and 11 different printing impressions.
We hope you will enjoy this print for many years to come, and we hope that you will keep an eye out for the next prints to come in the following months!
Thank you again!
-Brandon