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Azechi was largely self-taught, having studied oil painting through a correspondence course before moving to Tokyo in 1920. After 1925, he began work in a government printing office, where he experimented with new techniques, using scraps of lead as plates and a tea bowl as a burnishing tool. Eventually, he became an artisan printer for Hiratsuka Un’ichi and his circle, including Yamaguchi Gen and Onchi Kōshirō. In the post-WWII period, Azechi turned to the mountains and woodlands of Japan for his subjects, embracing a rustic style that reflects the influence of Hiratsuka in its simplified forms and rough outlines. In this work, he has allowed the natural grain of the woodblock to reveal itself in the mountaineer’s clothing, reinforcing the dependency of the mountain dweller on nature for sustenance and survival.
BB, 2014
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