by Ida Shoichi
$1,000–$8,000. Common prints: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Ida's innovative approach to paper and printmaking has earned him museum recognition. Works from major series command the highest prices.
Garden Project - Wood, Paper, Fire and Rain - Between Vertical and Horizon is a conceptual woodblock print by Ida Shoichi that treats the garden as a site where elemental forces converge. The title itself reads as a material inventory: wood (the carved block and the trees it came from), paper (the printing surface and the fibrous world of plants), fire (transformation, destruction, kiln heat), and rain (the water that feeds growth and dissolves boundaries). Ida's practice pushed woodblock printing far beyond its traditional reproductive function, turning the medium into a vehicle for investigating the relationships between natural materials and human intervention. Held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the work explores the tension between vertical and horizontal orientations, perhaps referencing trees standing against the flat plane of the earth, or rain falling across a garden's lateral spread.
1992
Color soft ground and hard ground etching with aquatint and drypoint printed on gampi paper chine colle
1992
Color soft ground etching with spit bite aquatint and drypoint printed on gampi paper chine colle
1992
Color soft and hard ground etching with spit bite aquatint and drypoint printed on gampi paper chine collé
1992
Color soft ground etching with spit bite aquatint and drypoint printed on gampi paper chine colle
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Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
10/70, 1966
Woodblock print
Garden Project - Wood, Paper, Fire and Rain - Between Vertical and Horizon was created by Ida Shoichi (井田照一).
Garden Project - Wood, Paper, Fire and Rain - Between Vertical and Horizon depicts gardens and rain.