Biography
Satoru Tanaka serves as an auditor on the Japan Board of the International Mokuhanga Association (IMA) for its 2025–2027 term. He is affiliated with Michihamono (道刃物工業), a long-established Japanese manufacturer of carving knives and chisels for woodblock printing and other carving crafts, based in Miki, Hyogo Prefecture. His role reflects an institutional engagement with the mokuhanga community: the IMA's Japan Board oversees the organization's activities in Japan, where water-based woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) has its deepest historical and cultural roots.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Satoru Tanaka serves as an auditor on the Japan Board of the International Mokuhanga Association (IMA) for its 2025–2027 term. He is affiliated with Michihamono (道刃物工業), a long-established Japanese manufacturer of carving knives and chisels for woodblock printing and other carving crafts, based in Miki, Hyogo Prefecture. His role reflects an institutional engagement with the mokuhanga community: the IMA's Japan Board oversees the organization's activities in Japan, where water-based woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) has its deepest historical and cultural roots.
Satoru Tanaka'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.