vintage japanese shikishi print : nazan cat bag they are held in the

they are held in the collections of major museums and coveted by textile tragics everywhere

A hand-formed

solving the usual challenges of smaller bags

not usually found in Kiyomizu pottery

vintage japanese shikishi print : nazan cat bag they are held in theThis depiction of abstracted birds at Nazan ji by Ogawa Usen (a Japanese artist who was influenced by his study of Western painting styles) springs to life with bold line and lively detail. Yokoyama Taikan was a leading figure in the early twentieth century Japanese art world, and this print is from a collection of reproductions of original Japanese artworks presented to him for his 60th birthday, in 1928. What an incredible gift! Printed on shikishi