Original Silkscreen / Serigraph Miyata Masayuki - Fuji in Oshino - Japan - ca 1980-90

£690.00

Very Rare Japanese Original Silkscreen / Serigraph Miyata Masayuki 宮田雅之 (1926–1997) - Fuji in Oshino 忍野の富士 - ca 1980-90

Edition: EX 2 with original signature of Masayuki Miyata

Size: Height 56.3cm, width 47.2cm

Object literature: Masayuki Miyata (1926–1997) was a Japanese kiri-e (papercutting) artist. In 1995 he was selected as the year's official artist for the United Nations. He created illustrations for modern publications of Japanese classic literature, including Oku no Hosomichi, The Tale of Genji, and The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. He was discovered by the great writer Junichiro Tanizaki and began as an illustrator of Tanizaki's literature.