Miidera Temple from the Series ‘Eight Views of Omi’
At the beginning of the 20th century, publisher Watanabe Shozaburo sought artists, block cutters and printers to breathe new life into Japanese printmaking. Thematically, the prints elaborated on traditional Japanese printmaking (ukiyo-e), with subjects such as idealized  portraits ofwomen or landscapes devoid of modernity, as in this image of a wooden temple in the rain.