The Kansai view
Subtitle: prints from Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe
By: text and selection: Chris Uhlenbeck, Maureen de Vries, and Elise Wessels
Contributors: Nihon no Hanga (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Publisher: Nihon no hanga
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Japanese Prints; Exhibitions
Description: With 'The Kansai view' Nihon no Hanga has decided to pay attention to the prints which were produced away from Tokyo, the center of Japan. As previous exhibitions have shown, the most important developments in the field of 20th century printmaking happened in Tokyo from the early 1910s. The Shin hanga and Sosaku hanga traditions developed through an intense artistic dialogue taking place in the rapidly growing capital. This exhibition looks at what was going on in the Kansai region, the area of the two other big cities of Japan, Kyoto and Osaka and the international port city of Kobe. The differences in the individual histories of the cities and their art traditions of the 19th centuries have resulted in very distinct trends in printmaking.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Nihon no hanga, Japanese Print Collection, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Spring 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (page 62).