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Kawarazaki Shodo 河原崎奨堂 (1899~1973) Flower Series (花版画)                                                                                                                                  

Koichi Okada created a series of 12 prints of famous views of Japan, most of them with Mount Fuji in the background.      

Kamisaka Sekka    神坂雪佳     (1866-1942) Born in Kyoto, real name Yoshitaka.   He studied under Suzuki Mizuhiko of the Shijo school and later become a disciple of Kishi Kokei.   He is a painter of the Koetsu Korin school and is world-renowned as a craft artist.   He traveled to Europe and adopted the Art Nouveau style, and her style received enthusiastic praise in Europe and the United States as someone who pioneered his own new horizons.   He also gave the dawn of modern crafts in Japan and greatly contributed to its subsequent development.   His work...

Master Teruhida Kato  加藤晃秀 (1936-2015) was born in Kyoto City. After graduating from the Department of Japanese Painting at Kyoto University of Art, he established a design studio and while participating in various craft projects. He created ``Ikiga''   "粋画"  with a unique touch. He has held solo exhibitions in New York and other locations, and is attracting attention from overseas as well. He depicted the atmosphere of the ancient capital Kyoto Japan with bold compositions based on black and white, and reproduced his painting with Japanese traditional woodblock prints. He is an artist who truly loves Kyoto. His depictions of...

歌川広重　名所江戸百景　　 "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" by　Utagawa Hiroshige (1797~1858)   Hiroshige's last work, ``One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,'' is a masterpiece of 120 illustrations (one of which was signed by the second generation Hiroshige and one was a catalogue), and is literally a monumental work that sums up his life's work as a painter. It's a truly masterpiece.   He was an ambitious artist who searched for the seasonal changes in people's affairs and moods in the outstanding landscapes of Edo's city center and suburbs, and discovered and registered new famous places.   A bold application of Western...