Shizuo ashikaga biography of mahatma

Shizuo made two sets of woodblock prints with flower and bird subjects in the 1950s.

Shizuo ashikaga biography of mahatma gandhi

Print size differed in the two sets (i.e., 125 x 190 mm versus 300 x 450 mm) but otherwise the prints were very similar. Both flowers and birds were drawn in a true-to-life way and contrasting color was added to the background, often in horizontal bands.

Presented here as a pair are:

• Heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica) and Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus)
• Cherry (Prunus sp.) and Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)

Shizuo made two sets of woodblock prints with flower and bird subjects in the 1950s.

Print size differed in the two sets (i.e., 125 x 190 mm versus 300 x 450 mm) but otherwise the prints were very similar. Both flowers and birds were drawn in a true-to-life way and contrasting color was added to the background, often in h