Hisshutsu
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
"Hisshutsu" — meaning "must emerge" or "inevitable arising" — is a title with both technical and philosophical resonances. In printmaking, the act of printing (hisshutsu) describes the image's emergence from block to paper; philosophically, the term suggests the inevitable arising of phenomena from their causes. This 1937 print, in its title alone, collapses the technical and the metaphysical into a single word, making the act of printmaking itself an image of Buddhist emergence. It is characteristic of Munakata's capacity to find cosmic significance in the physical process of carving and printing.
1960
Woodblock print
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
1939-68
Woodblock print
1939 (printed 1955)
Woodblock print
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hisshutsu was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1937.
Hisshutsu depicts religious and abstract.