Gogo no Yuki (Afternoon Snow)

Catalog note / 解説

Tuesday, 8 July 2008 Tatsuo Kawashima was born in Kyoto in 1939. He had an early interest in the woodblock print tradition, and apprenticed and worked at Uchida Art in Kyoto as a carver and printer for some of their woodblock prints in the 50's and 60's. Simultaneously in the 1960’s, he began to experiment with designs for his own woodblock prints in a contemporary style. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, he released some of his first popular designs in a larger format, drawing from scenes in the countryside and from Kyoto; his picturesque, traditional home base. Kawashima's prints are attractive, tranquil landscape scenes. He illustrated landscapes during all four season and produced so…