Biography
Miida Sakae (三井田栄) is a Japanese printmaker who received the Tokushima Shimbun (Tokushima Newspaper) Jurors' Prize at the 2023 Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition for the work 'Shin V' (芯 V, 'Core V'), a woodblock print made with water-based ink and hand-burnished with a baren in an edition of ten. This prize, associated with the principal newspaper of Tokushima Prefecture, recognizes artistic achievement within the AIMPE competition, one of the more prominent international miniature-print exhibitions.
The title 'Shin V' — with 'shin' (芯) meaning core, heart, or centre — belongs to a numbered series; Miida showed another work, 憧憬 II ('Longing II'), in the same 2023 exhibition. Such serial, numbered titles are common among printmakers who treat an ongoing sequence not merely as a means of reproduction but as a framework for sustained artistic inquiry, each iteration refining and extending its predecessors.
Miida's recognition at AIMPE 2023 places the artist among the international community of printmakers who take part in the Awagami Factory's biennial competition, in which every entry must be printed on the factory's handmade washi paper. The exhibition has become a significant meeting point for printmakers from Japan and around the world, bridging traditional Japanese papermaking with contemporary printmaking practices across all techniques.
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Miida Sakae (三井田栄) is a Japanese printmaker who received the Tokushima Shimbun (Tokushima Newspaper) Jurors' Prize at the 2023 Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition for the work 'Shin V' (芯 V, 'Core V'), a woodblock print made with water-based ink and hand-burnished with a baren in an edition of ten. This prize, associated with the principal newspaper of Tokushima Prefecture, recognizes artistic achievement within the AIMPE competition, one of the more prominent international miniature-print exhibitions.
Miida Sakae's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Miida Sakae's prints frequently feature abstract.