Collection
FUNAZAKI Kôjirô
(Japan 1900– )
- Title
- Hat Rock, Uma Island, from the series New hundred views of Japan
- Alternative title:
- Shin Nihon hyakkei: 31 Umajima Eboshi-iwa
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Shôwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Year
- 1941
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
-
29.9 x 22.4cm image; 32.8 x 25.0cm support
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. in Japanese, ink [incised on block] "Kôjirô koku [cut by Kôjirô]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1997
- Accession number
- 8.1997.4
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This series of prints is a unique set of prints in two ways: at least thirty contemporary artists collaborated in a single series of landscape prints, depicting both famous places & scenery of modern urban life. This series is a product of the Creative Print Movement, a modern movement in printmaking which began early in the 20th century by artists who designed, blockcut & printed their own work with a clear intention of creating works of art as opposed to `surimono', reproductions. Due to the intensification of WWII, publication of the series was stopped by the Japanese authorities who feared that the interior of Japan would become known to its enemies.
