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Initially a student of the famed Japanese oil painter Fujishima Takeji, Kitaoka Fumio spent his last two years at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts studying mokuhan printing under Hiratsuka Un’ichi. After his graduation, the government sent him to Manchuria as part of Japan’s “Northeast Asia Culture Development Society,” where his work began showing the strong influence of Social Realism. Following the war, he studied at the École National des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and taught printing in the United States from 1964–1965. From the 1960s onward, he experimented with the genre of landscape. Here, Kitaoka depicts Ginkakuji, the Temple of the Silver Pavilion, a Muromachi-era Buddhist temple in Kyoto, and a perennial favorite of meisho-e (famous views) printmakers since the Edo period. Alternating textures in the carved block, he masterfully captures the feel of the temple’s famed Zen rock gardens.
BB, 2014
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