KANEKO KUNIO
Woodblock. Born 1949 Tokyo. Musashino University of Fine Arts. Studied with woodblock print masters Hoshi Joichi and Sasajima Kihei. Kaneko has held several exhibitions in Tokyo, Kyoto, Chiba, Kanagawa, Okinawa Japan and in New York and Seoul, Korea.
Kaneko’s woodblocks are pressed by using the traditional style baren, or a handheld disc-like tool with a flat bottom, often wrapped in a bamboo sheath, and not by a pressing machine. Kaneko’s recurring themes are the traditional Mount Fuji, Japanese fans, kimonos, and tabi (white socks worn with kimono). His compositions are often combined with embossing a gold or silver leaf, and at times using exquisite kimono material as background. His most recent works are of beautiful koi, or Japanese carp, in which he uses the natural wood grain as ripples in water.
Title: Run Run Run - SOLD OUT
Date: 2009
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 23 x 45cm
Title: Sensu 23 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2006
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 100
Image size: 10 x 16cm
Title: Sensu 18
Date: 2003
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 100
Image size: 12 x 20 cm
Title: La La La Come Dancing
Date: 2017
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 22 x 56 cm
Title: Oh My Mai
Date: 2018
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: Diameter 36 cm
Title: Blue on Blue
Date: 2009
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 27 x 38cm
Title: Lucky Kimono 7
Date: 2016
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 20 x 20cm
Title: Behind the Shoji
Date: 2014
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 34 x 25cm
Title: Something Good - SOLD OUT
Date: 2016
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 151
Image size: 40 x 67 cm framed
Title: Fuji Lucky Day
Date: 2014
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 25 x 39cm
Title: Summer Time 2
Date: 2012
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 40 x 40 cm
Title: Doobie Doobie Do
Date: 2011
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 151
Image size: 23 x 66 cm
Title: Happy Kimono 3
Date: 2004
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 150
Image size: 15 x 16 cm
Title: Happi-Go-Lucky 8
Date: 2016
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 51
Image size: 14 x 20 cm
Title: One Heart
Date: 2018
Medium: Woodblock
Edition: 151
Image size: 43 x 17 cm
