Japan Art and Hiratsuka Unichi: Shimane Prefecture – Modern Tokyo Times

Japan Art and Hiratsuka Unichi: Shimane Prefecture – Modern Tokyo Times

Japan Art and Hiratsuka Unichi: Shimane Prefecture Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Hiratsuka Unichi (Un’ichi) was born in 1895 and died in 1997. He is connected strongly with the sōsaku hanga (creative prints) art movement that blessed Japan. Indeed, Hiratsuka is called the “grand old man” of sōsaku hanga. The first and third prints represent Hiratsuka Unichi’s home prefecture of Shimane. However, the second print focuses on Mount Koya in Waka…