Japanese Woodblock Print Night Heron on Bamboo Rakuzan Large Size Bird

Formal Name: Rakuzan kacho-gafu. Night Heron on Bamboo. Feature: Japanese Woodblock Print, Bird. Contents: First edition made by Rakuzan. Year of publication: 1929. Light foxing in the margins. Rakuzan was born in Kyoto. When he was young, he studied under Takeuchi Seiho, a pioneer of modern Japanese painting and a representative painter of Kyoto painting. […]

Ide Gakusui (Japan, 1899 1982) Original Japanese Woodblock Print Heron

Ide Gakusui (Japan, 1899 – 1982) ” White Heron in Rain “. Original Japanese Woodblock Print. Watanabe’s 1963 catalog lists fifteen prints Ide designed, all of them of the bird and flower genre. Three of his best known designs for Watanabe are pictured below. After his collaboration with Watanabe, Gakusui continued to design prints through […]