An internationally renowned master of the mezzotint print, Hamanishi uses the very nature of this medium to create velvety black backgrounds and richly detailed images laden with a sense of mystery and intrigue. His works are in the collections of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum and the British Museum.

Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese printmaker best known for his depictions of trees in centered compositions. The trees are often shown leafless with monochromatic backgrounds, sometimes incorporating gold or silver leaf into the layers of the intricate woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an…

His rich and heavily textured woodblock prints are made by the reduction method, of carving the same block, printing and effacing up to twenty times. Influenced by the deep spirituality of Zen and the immense time and space of the universe, his images are born from various forms of creation, which can be observed…

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, the late Clifton Karhu was one of the most acclaimed American woodblock artists to work in Japan. Though the son of two painters and artistically inclined from an early age, Karhu joined the military. Stationed at the American Navy base in Sasebo from 1946 to 1948, he fell in love…