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English Alphabet Still Life by Sumio Kawakami — Japanese Woodblock print

English Alphabet Still Life

by Sumio Kawakami

Sōsaku-hanga
Still LifeMountains
Medium:
Woodblock print
Image courtesy of
British Museum

Description

"English Alphabet Still Life" is a sosaku-hanga print by Sumio Kawakami, created during the Taisho-Showa. Sumio Kawakami made woodblock prints that looked like nothing else in the sosaku-hanga movement: flat, bright, deliberately naive compositions that mixed Japanese and Western imagery with a folk-art directness.

More Prints by Sumio Kawakami

Title unknown [Flowers in a vase] by Sumio Kawakami

Title unknown [Flowers in a vase]

c. 1960

Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Ginza at Night, from the series Recollections of Tokyo by Sumio Kawakami

Ginza at Night, from the series Recollections of Tokyo

1945

Color woodblock print

Night of Ginza by Sumio Kawakami

Night of Ginza

Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Chrysanthemums, Hibiya Park by Sumio Kawakami

Chrysanthemums, Hibiya Park

Woodblock print

More Still Life Prints

Sandflowers, Shôwa period, dated 1961 by Fumio Kitaoka

Sandflowers, Shôwa period, dated 1961

Woodblock print

Still Life of Vase and Flowers by Ishikawa Toraji

Still Life of Vase and Flowers

Woodblock print

Making Sounds - Apple by Emiko Aida

Making Sounds - Apple

Aquatint

Making Sounds - Orange by Emiko Aida

Making Sounds - Orange

Aquatint

Featured in Collections

Curated cross-cuts that include this print.

Sōsaku-Hanga: The Creative-Print Movement

Frequently Asked Questions

English Alphabet Still Life was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生).

English Alphabet Still Life depicts still life and mountains.