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Yuzuru Muto — Japanese Contemporary Mokuhanga artist

Yuzuru Muto

武藤譲

Japan

Biography

Yuzuru Muto is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who has been an active participant in the international mokuhanga community. His work was featured in the Sumi-Fusion Juried International Exhibition at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2021) in Nara, Japan, and was also included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) in Echizen, Japan, where he was selected for the Asia regional exhibition.

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Yuzuru Muto is a Japanese mokuhanga artist who has been an active participant in the international mokuhanga community. His work was featured in the Sumi-Fusion Juried International Exhibition at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2021) in Nara, Japan, and was also included in the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC 2024) in Echizen, Japan, where he was selected for the Asia regional exhibition.

Yuzuru Muto'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.