Shirasu Masako 白洲正子 - A4 Riso Print (Signed and Numbered)
Shirasu Masako 白洲正子
Author, art collector, and first woman to act in a Noh play
作家、美術品収集家、最初の能舞台に立った日本女性 (1910年1月7日–1998年12月26日)
彼女は自然が芸術を生じさせ、職人の手で作ることの見返りに芸術が自然を生じさせると信じました。
Shirasu Masako was an essayist and art enthusiast whose work helped influence the aesthetic tastes of postwar Japan. As a child, she began taking lessons in noh theatre and as a teen became the first female to perform on a professional noh stage.
Although she didn’t start writing until her thirties, Shirasu published more than 50 books in her lifetime on all subjects relating to Japanese culture. Today, her passion could almost be compared to that of a travel blogger—she made pilgrimages around Japan to faraway places to view temples, private art collections, and noh memorabilia—and reported about the topics in extensive essays. Her husband remarked, “My old lady is amazing. Everyone else just reads about a place without going there, but she always sets out to wherever it is even just to write a few pages about the place. No one does that anymore.”
Throughout her life, she explored the relationship between nature and art and how it influenced artisans. She believed that nature itself gave rise to art, and through fashioning at the hands of artisans, could give back to nature in return. Her collection of some 10,000 items is still preserved at her former home, now Buaisō Museum, in Machida, Tokyo.
What is a riso print?
These prints use risograph technology, a method of printing developed in Japan in the mid-1980s. It can be described as a mix between screenprinting and photocopying. The risograph process produces prints with extremely vibrant, crisp inks, and sometimes these inks overlap during the printing process to create interesting and unique details. These soy-based inks also have a lower environmental impact.
Product details
Printed in Tokyo, Japan by Hand Saw Press print studio. Each print is A4 size (210 x 297 mm / 8.27 x 11.69 in) and printed on Natural White 186gsm Takeo Araveal paper. Acid-free and FSC Approved.
Each print is signed with a traditional Japanese ‘hanko’ artist stamp and hand-numbered from a limited edition of 20. Prints are packaged in cello bags with rigid cardboard inserts and shipped in flat mailers.
Please note that frames are not included.
Delivery times & prices
We ship worldwide. 日本へ国際郵便で送ります。
UK deliveries: 3-4 working days via Royal Mail 1st class
International deliveries available via Royal Mail International Standard Airmail
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