Biography
Nobuko Yamasaki is a Japanese-American mokuhanga artist based in the United States. She was selected for the juried exhibitions at both the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Nara, Japan, and the 2024 IMC in Echizen, Japan, where her prints were displayed in the Americas regional exhibition. Her consistent selection across multiple conferences places her among the established community of mokuhanga practitioners in the United States, bringing a Japanese cultural heritage to her practice of traditional water-based woodblock printing.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Nobuko Yamasaki is a Japanese-American mokuhanga artist based in the United States. She was selected for the juried exhibitions at both the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Nara, Japan, and the 2024 IMC in Echizen, Japan, where her prints were displayed in the Americas regional exhibition. Her consistent selection across multiple conferences places her among the established community of mokuhanga practitioners in the United States, bringing a Japanese cultural heritage to her practice of traditional water-based woodblock printing.
Nobuko Yamasaki'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.
Nobuko Yamasaki is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.