Itow Takumi

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Itow Takumi 伊藤卓美 (born in 1946 in Miyagi Prefecture) is a prominent Japanese printmaker and president of the Japan Print Society. His artwork has been featured on Japan Post postage stamps as well as featured in exhibitions at the Library of Congress and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Itow teaches woodblock printing at Waseda University in Tokyo

Itow's interest in the woodblock printing began at a young age when his father, an painter, encouraged his study of the arts. Having a special interest in Japanese matsuri festivals and folk art, especially mingei, many of Itow's prints explore the local cultures of Japan's rural areas, such as his own Miyagi Prefecture.

[edit] Reference and Further Reading

Akita, Manami. "'Asobi wa' Kyukyoku no Yorokobi." Hanga Geijutsu 118 Dec. 2002: 58-61.
Yoshida, Shozo. "Tono Kitamami no Tohoku Minzoku Geino to Hangaka Itow Takumi." Gekkan Ashita Mar. 1987.

[edit] External links

• [1] The homepage of the Japanese Printmaking Society