About This Print
Miyata depicts Ōboke Gorge with the Yoshino River running below and winding Highway 32 on the left. This print is number 10 from volume 4, Shikoku, from the artist's 240 print, 12 volume compendium Miyata Saburō Collection of Woodblock Prints Scenery of Japan.
Ōboke Gorge
About the Series "Miyata Saburō Collection of Woodblock Prints - Scenery of Japan"
Consisting of twelve volumes, each containing twenty woodblock prints depicting scenic locations around Japan, Miyata spent fourteen years from 1970 to 1984 producing the series, which he carved and printed himself in a limited edition of 100 prints each. Most, if not all, the places depicted were actually visited by the artist. Miyata followed this massive series of 240 prints with a printed compendium of the prints titled Miyata Saburō mokuhanga zenshū 宮田三郎木版画全集 (The Complete Woodblock Prints of Miyata Saburō), release in limited edition in five volumes in 1983-1984.
Print Details
IHL Catalog | #2086 |
Title | ![]() Ōboke (Gorge) |
Series | Miyata Saburō Collection of Woodblock Prints Scenery of Japan 宮田三郎木版画集―日本の風景・四国 第四集 Miyata Saburō Mokuhanga shū Nihon no fūkei・Shikoku, Collection Number 4 |
Artist | Miyata Saburō (1924-2013) |
Signature | none |
Seal | ![]() |
Publication Date | c. 1974 |
Edition | ![]() |
Publisher | the artist in conjunction with the Tokyo Print Research Institute Tokyo Hanga Kenkyūsho 東京版画研究所 |
Printer | self-printed |
Impression | excellent |
Colors | excellent |
Condition | excellent- minor paper wrinkling likely from printing process; printers marks right margin |
Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
Miscellaneous | |
Format | dai-ōban |
H x W Paper | 15 1/4 x 20 1/8 in. (38.7 x 51.1 cm) |
H x W Image | 12 1/4 x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.6 cm) |
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