Doesn't this woodblock look like its out of an early Studio Ghibli animation? It's called Car Town (Toyota) by Japanese Artist Fumio Kitaoka (1918-2007).
This woodblock takes me back to the year I lived on Maui (decades ago). A friend had a boat that offered sunset cruises and we'd look back on the W.Maui Mountains, often surrounded by Humpback Whales. I moved to Honolulu for 2 years after that.
Ito Takashi 1894-1982
Ameshiriro
#japanese #woodblock
Another super modern looking silkscreen by Japanese artist Go (Tsuyoshi) Yayanagi (1933-Present). It's called Flower Like the Blue Sky.
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I love the violet and greens in this painting. I also like how the rule of thirds is incorporated into triangles making the composition sing.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Shono Driving Rain
#japanese #woodblock
I've had two stuffed peacocks on driftwood in my apt since the 1990's, When they die, they do not rot or decay for a very long time making them ideal for taxidermy & as a symbol or immortality. In Honolulu I saw white peafowl for the first time (wow).
Yang Shanshen (Chinese painter)
White Peacocks
