MORI YOSHITOSHI

Stencil Print. Born 1898. Died 1992. Tokyo. Graduated from the Kawabata Art School.

Permanent Collections include: Art Institute of Chicago, Barcelona Art Museum, Berlin National Museum, The British Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Mori is a master of the stencil print, or “kappa-zuri”, a printing process used for centuries by textile dyers in Japan. He studied under Yanagi Soetsu and Serizawa Keisuke, two renowned artists of folk art and stencil. He was a member of the Japan Print Association and the Japan Artists’ Association. In his prints and paintings Mori depicts the traits and sensibilities of the common folk of Old Edo or Old Tokyo, with their festivals and theatre performances, craftsmen and women of the demi-monde. Other favourite themes were the classic stories of The Tale of Genji and The Tale of Heike. There are fearsome warriors, often on startled-looking horses, and unadorned, unaffected artisans, kabuki actors in all sorts of poses, and women in even more interesting poses.

We are delighted to be able to bring to you below a rare masterpiece, one of Mori’s most famous prints, The Tiger Killer.

 

MORI YOSHITOSHI:  The Tiger Killer
Title: The Tiger Killer - SOLD OUT
Date: 1989
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 70
Image size: 86 x 69cm framed
MORI YOSHITOSHI:  Yasubei
Title: Yasubei - SOLD OUT
Date: 1989
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 70
Image size: 47 x 59cm framed
MORI YOSHITOSHI:  Embracing
Title: Embracing - SOLD OUT
Date: 1975
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition:  50
Image size:  51 x 70cm 
MORI YOSHITOSHI:  Reclining Beauty
Title: Reclining Beauty - SOLD OUT
Date: 1974
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition:  300
Image size:  30 x 40cm 
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Sleeping Woman
Title: Sleeping Woman - SOLD OUT
Date: 1975
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 300
Image size: 32 x 42cm
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Otokonosuke
Title: Otokonosuke - SOLD OUT
Date: 1974
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 100
Image size: 60x45cm
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Samurai with a Long Sword
Title: Samurai with a Long Sword
Date:
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 150
Image size: 36x52cm paper
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Kuruma Arasoi (A Quarrel of Vehicles)
Title: Kuruma Arasoi (A Quarrel of Vehicles)
Date: 1972
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 50
Image size: 70x51cm paper
MORI YOSHITOSHI: An Ornamental Pin
Title: An Ornamental Pin
Date:
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition:
Image size: 35 x 23 cm paper
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Samurai Swinging A Sword
Title: Samurai Swinging A Sword
Date:
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 150
Image size: 36 x 52 cm paper
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Afternoon Nap (B)
Title: Afternoon Nap (B) - SOLD OUT
Date: 1975
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 50
Image size: 52 x 70 cm paper
MORI YOSHITOSHI: The Dance of Gioh
Title: The Dance of Gioh
Date: 1972
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 50
Image size: 69 x 50 cm paper
MORI YOSHITOSHI: Evening Cosmetics
Title: Evening Cosmetics
Date: 1975
Medium: Colour Stencil
Edition: 50
Image size: 52 x 70 cm paper