About This Print

One of Miyashita's post-1980s prints², displaying a move back towards realism from the abstraction of his works created in the 1970s.  Miyashita used a similar water and hilly shoreline motif on at least several other prints that may have been created around the time this collection's print was made.

The intense blues and greens are printed using water-based inks from woodblock with the elevated black outlines and impressed surfaces of the buildings on the shoreline being achieved through soldering wire and bits and pieces to a zinc plate and building up the outlined areas with layers of oil-based intaglio ink.

 

¹ Japanese Prints Today: Tradition with Innovation, Margaret K. Johnson, Dale K. Hilton, Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., 1980, p. 212.

² While Miyashita did not date his prints, this print was likely created post-1980 based upon the paper not having the artist's "TM" watermark seal on the paper - a hallmark of his pre-1980 prints.

³ 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists, Gaston Petit, Kodansha International Ltd., 1973, p. 225.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#698
Title	Mountain and Lake  (山と湖 Yama to mizuumi )
Series
Artist	Miyashita Tokio (1930–2011)
Signature	Tokio Miyashita in pencil
Seal	not sealed
Date	undated but likely after 1980 - While Miyashita did not date his prints, this print was likely created post-1980 based upon the paper not having the artist's "TM" watermark seal on the paper - a hallmark of his pre-1980 prints.
Edition	2 of 35
Publisher	artist
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	good - minor toning in margin; several pin holes in margin (possible drying holes) and slight damage in image area on left from printing process
Genre	sosaku hanga (creative print)
Miscellaneous
Format
H x W Paper	13 5/8 x 20 1/8 in. (34.6 x 51.1 cm)
H x W Image	9 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (23.2 x 36.2 cm)
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