About This Print

Miyashita gives us twilight glimpse of the countryside from a car's interior.  The side view mirrors present us with the face of a young women asleep and a farmhouse, silent in the approaching night.  A broad ribbon of orange road lies before us - or is the orange shape our car?  Anyway, as is his signature style, Miyashita has laid down the broad color bands with woodblock and the black embossed lines using an intaglio metal plate to which he has soldered pieces of wire or metal.  Some photographic transfer onto a metal plate may also be at work here.

This print was published in 1974 as part of a portfolio titled "Nature" consisting of ten different prints by ten artists in an edition of 100. The artists and prints in the folio are:
Nakabayashi Tadayoshi, "Umibe no ie" (House by the Sea)
Izumi Shigeru, "Red Heat"
Kurosaki Akira, "Nature 1"
Hiwasaki Takao, "Kaos"
Ida Shoichi (1941-2006), "Wind"
Sakazume Atsuo, "Kanashiki Piero" (Sad Pierrot)
Funasaka Yoshisuke, "Endless"
Kimura Kosuke, "A Natural Poet"
Tamura Fumio, "Breath in the Air"
Miyashita Tokio, "Nature"

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#719
Title	Nature
Series	one of ten prints by ten different artists included in a portfolio titled "Nature"
Artist	Miyashita Tokio (1930–2011)
Signature	Tokio Miyashita in pencil
Seal	not sealed
Date	undated but portfolio was issued in 1974
Edition	100 of 100
Publisher	unknown
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	good - minor toning in margin and mat burn; two pin holes - top center of image and bottom center of image that are present in at least two other impressions in the editions; handling/printing creases; fold along length of bottom margin; hinging/masking tape removed from top margin leaving lighter areas on paper
Genre	sosaku hanga (creative print)
Miscellaneous
Format
H x W Paper	17 x 12 in. (43.2 x 30.5 cm)
H x W Image	11 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (28.9 x 22.5 cm)
Collections This Print	The British Museum 1986,0321,0.949
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