ROSES

Catalog note / 解説

Offered is Nisaburo Ito's ROSES, an embossed woodblock print from Uchida. Nisaburo Ito (1910-1988) continues a family tradition of artists that stretches back to the Edo Period. He was a Kyoto artist who became famous for his exquisite flower prints, though he also did landscapes of area temples. "Roses" is a superb print. The blooms are embossed, a technique used on finer woodblock prints. ( Embossing: the red areas of the blossoms are deeper set than the raised white areas so that the blooms are in 3-D. You can feel the depressions in the paper when you run a finger across the image.) The bud extending into the lower right quadrant is beautifully hued from light to dark, a marvelous print…