VINTAGE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TADASHIDA NISHIGE BLACK CAT LOOKING BACK ART JP measuring approximately 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches behind glass in a larger frame. Fine condition with frame loss and stable detachment lower left as pictured. TADASHIGE NISHIDA was born in 1942, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan. After graduating from The University of Chiba in Tokyo, he lived in Spain for a year before returning to Japan to produce Nihon-ga style paintings. From 1961 to 1984, Tadashige Nishida exhibited paintings in many exhibitions, receiving multiple awards and international attention. Beginning in 1985, Tadashige Nishida began to turn his attention to woodblock printmaking and exhibited his work in New York that same year. Due to his success in printmaking, Nishida has continued to design woodblock prints and has exhibited countless times at major galleries and high-end department stores in Japan since the eighties. Currently, Tadashige Nishida’s work depicts cats in various poses and combinations and are generally printed on a gold leaf background or a solid color background. To date he has hand-carved and hand-printed over 150 different woodblock prints. The item “VINTAGE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TADASHIDA NISHIGE BLACK CAT LOOKING BACK GOLD” is in sale since Monday, October 11, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Prints”. The seller is “theprimitivefold” and is located in Villa Park, Illinois. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay.

• Region of Origin: Japan
• Primary Material: Paper
• Color: Black
• Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
• Age: Post-1940
• Maker: Tadashida Nishige