Flowers of Japan Series (Nihon no hana rensaku)
Nihon no hana rensaku
About This Series
Nihon no hana rensaku, here rendered Flowers of Japan Series, is a print suite in which Hashimoto Okiie (1899-1993) treated the flowering plants of the classical Japanese seasonal vocabulary in his characteristic sosaku-hanga manner of boldly carved contour, flattened color plane, and patient tonal observation. Hashimoto, a Tottori-born artist who had trained at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in the Western-painting course under Okada Saburosuke and turned to woodblock in the 1930s under the influence of Hiratsuka Un'ichi, became from the postwar decades onward best known for two principal subjects, Japanese gardens with their stone, raked gravel, and clipped pine, and the historic castles whose massive curved stone foundations and white-plaster donjons he treated across an extended career-long series. Alongside these subjects he returned across the postwar decades to the flowers of the Japanese seasonal calendar, including plum, camellia, cherry, iris, peony, hydrangea, morning glory, chrysanthemum, and other classical kacho-ga floral motifs, treating each in the broadly massed sosaku-hanga manner he had developed under Hiratsuka's mentorship and refined through his own teaching career at Tokyo educational institutions and his long association with the Japan Print Association. As a sosaku-hanga artist Hashimoto self-carved and self-printed his sheets in small numbered editions, the printed surface bearing the visible marks of his own carving and the hand-rubbed baren impression that distinguish sosaku-hanga from the carver-printer commercial publishing of shin-hanga. The Nihon no hana rensaku belongs to the postwar consolidation of his career, the years in which his castle and garden prints had established him as one of the principal sosaku-hanga artists of his generation and brought his work into international collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, alongside the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and the Tottori Prefectural Museum where his hometown holdings are concentrated.
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Nihon no hana rensaku, here rendered Flowers of Japan Series, is a print suite in which Hashimoto Okiie (1899-1993) treated the flowering plants of the classical Japanese seasonal vocabulary in his characteristic sosaku-hanga manner of boldly carved contour, flattened color plane, and patient tonal observation. Hashimoto, a Tottori-born artist who had trained at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in the Western-painting course under Okada Saburosuke and turned to woodblock in the 1930s under the influence of Hiratsuka Un'ichi, became from the postwar decades onward best known for two principal subjects, Japanese gardens with their stone, raked gravel, and clipped pine, and the historic castles whose massive curved stone foundations and white-plaster donjons he treated across an extended career-long series. Alongside these subjects he returned across the postwar decades to the flowers of the Japanese seasonal calendar, including plum, camellia, cherry, iris, peony, hydrangea, morning glory, chrysanthemum, and other classical kacho-ga floral motifs, treating each in the broadly massed sosaku-hanga manner he had developed under Hiratsuka's mentorship and refined through his own teaching career at Tokyo educational institutions and his long association with the Japan Print Association. As a sosaku-hanga artist Hashimoto self-carved and self-printed his sheets in small numbered editions, the printed surface bearing the visible marks of his own carving and the hand-rubbed baren impression that distinguish sosaku-hanga from the carver-printer commercial publishing of shin-hanga. The Nihon no hana rensaku belongs to the postwar consolidation of his career, the years in which his castle and garden prints had established him as one of the principal sosaku-hanga artists of his generation and brought his work into international collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, alongside the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and the Tottori Prefectural Museum where his hometown holdings are concentrated.
The Flowers of Japan Series (Nihon no hana rensaku) series contains 1 prints, created by Okiie Hashimoto.
The Flowers of Japan Series (Nihon no hana rensaku) series was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家).
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