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Hoshi Jōichi was both a student and later an instructor at the Tainan Normal School (now the National University of Tainan) in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. In 1946, he was repatriated to Japan and began studying oil painting at the Musashino College of Fine Arts. Soon after, he taught himself the art of mokuhan printing. Initially, his focus was constellations of stars, which appear as almost abstract designs of white dots on dark ground. Beginning in 1967, however, Hoshi turned his attention to trees, which he depicted in fine detail, usually with only two colors. This print employs red ink and gold leaf, a combination that is characteristic of his output during his later years.
BB, 2014
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