Biography
Satoru Tanaka is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who serves as an auditor on the Japan Board of the International Mokuhanga Association (IMA) for 2025-2027. His organizational role within the IMA reflects his engagement with the mokuhanga community and its institutional development. The IMA Japan Board oversees the organization's activities in Japan, where mokuhanga has its deepest historical and cultural roots.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Satoru Tanaka is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who serves as an auditor on the Japan Board of the International Mokuhanga Association (IMA) for 2025-2027. His organizational role within the IMA reflects his engagement with the mokuhanga community and its institutional development. The IMA Japan Board oversees the organization's activities in Japan, where 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.
Satoru Tanaka 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.