Biography
Miho Miura (born 1961) is a contemporary Japanese woodcut printmaker. Her woodcut 'The Lights Go On in the Town with the Rustling of Rice Seedling' (2024, 30 × 24 cm) was among the works shown in the 68th CWAJ Print Show (2025), the annual contemporary-print exhibition organized by the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ).
The print grew out of a scene Miura came upon while driving between rice paddies at dusk: a fast-changing evening sky mirrored on the water of freshly transplanted fields, a reflection visible only in the brief interval after transplanting, before the new seedlings fill the space with green. Although she does not usually work from photographs, for this piece she paid particular attention to recreating those colors through careful printing with the baren.
Miura has said that she has always loved carving wood and sharing her work with others, tracing the habit to making New Year's and summer greeting cards while growing up and to woodcut's accessibility, a practice that requires little beyond gouges and barens. Beyond her CWAJ Print Show entry, little biographical or exhibition detail about her is currently available through public online sources.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1961
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Landscapes
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Miho Miura (born 1961) is a contemporary Japanese woodcut printmaker. Her woodcut 'The Lights Go On in the Town with the Rustling of Rice Seedling' (2024, 30 × 24 cm) was among the works shown in the 68th CWAJ Print Show (2025), the annual contemporary-print exhibition organized by the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ).
Miho Miura was active born in 1961. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Miho Miura'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.
Miho Miura's prints frequently feature landscapes.