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Japanese Woodblock Print “Beauty & Clock”. By Ito Shinsui (1898 – 1972). His family initially enjoyed the economic benefits of the Sino-Japanese War boom, but while he was in elementary school, their fortunes changed and Shinsui had to leave school to work, first at a sign shop and then as a factory hand at the Tokyo Printing Company. Kiyokata is credited with elevating the traditional ukiyo-e genre to a legitimate category of modern nihonga painting. On taking the aspiring young painter (Hajime) under his wing, Kiyokata have him the art name Shinsui. In 1916 Shinsui’s talents attracted the attention of Watanabe Shozaburo when the shin hanga publisher saw the artist’s painting’Before the Mirror’. With Kiyokata’s consent Watanabe persuaded the young artist to begin to design works for him to produce as woodblocks, of which a version of’Before the Mirror’ was the first in July 1916. From that time until Watanabe’s death in 1962 Watanabe and Shinsui collaborated on over sixty landscape prints and about 100 others, mostly of beautiful women (bijinga). Shinsui occasionally worked for other publishers even before 1962. His series’Eight Views of Lake Biwa’ set standards for the landscape print which were taken up by Yoshida Hiroshi and by another Kiyokata pupil, Kawase Hasui. Once Hasui had specialized in landscape, Shinsui confined himself more to’bijinga’ in prints, and increasingly in paintings, which always occupied most of his time, especially after 1927, when he founded his own academy of painting, the Shinsui Gakujuku (Shinsui Academy); this was moved in 1930 and renamed Roho Gakujuku (Academy of the Clear Peak) and attracted many pupils, engendering another generation of’Nihonga’ artists specialising in’bijinga’. Today Shinsui is recognized as the greatest’bijinga’ artist of the 20th century shin hanga style. Please read before ordering. We are off on Saturday, Sunday (Japan time) and National holidays in Japan. So we’ll be late for the answering questions. Thank you for your understanding. International Buyers Please Note.
Thank you for visiting our page. Our store owns a lot of unique items that you won’t see in other stores. Please take a look at them from here. You won’t regret it! Flower bird, wisteria flower. X 24 x 2 cm. Please see Photo’s as part of the item description, since they are photo’s of the actual Artwork you will receive! There always might be slight color variation from the Original to the colors you see on the photo’s. We will carefully deliver using the packing material. We will do our best to match your asking price. Thank you for reading to the end. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions ^ ^.
