MISAYUKI MIYATA (1926-1997) 55 BOXED NUMBERED COLLECTION OF JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS No 1226 / 2000

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MISAYUKI MIYATA (1926-1997) 55 BOXED NUMBERED COLLECTORS EDITION - COLLECTION OF JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS No 1226 / 2000 - INCLUDES A BOOK ON HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HISTORY AND A SET OF GLOVES TO HANDLE THE PRINTS SO AS NOT TO TARNISH THEM WHEN HANDLING

Miyata Masayuki ( ), was born in Tokyo in 1926. He is mainly known as a kiri-e (papercutting) artist. He was discovered by the famous writer Tanizaki Jun'ichiro. A few years before his death, in 1995, he was selected as the year's official artist for the United Nations. He made illustrations for modern publications of Japanese classic literature, including Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to Oku), The Tale of Genji, and The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Still, he also made woodblock prints that were mainly executed in the style of papercuttings. He is an artist that is much more known in the East than in the West.

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