Shikō Munakata (1903-75) brought Japan’s woodblock tradition into the modern age with his spontaneous, Expressionist approach. “Shikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing,” on view at the Japan Society through March 20, includes the artist’s “Tōkaidō Series,” from 1964—“Yui: Construction at Sea,” pictured above, is among its sixty-one images—for which he travelled along the same coastal route that once inspired the Edo-period ukiyo-e masters Hiroshige and Hokusai.
Japanese Woodblock Prints in the Modern Age
“A Way of Seeing,” at Japan Society, exhibits the work of Shikō Munakata, who applied a spontaneous, Expressionist approach to the art form.
Art work © Shikō Munakata, “Yui: Construction at Sea” (1964); Photograph by Nicholas Knight
