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One of Japan’s most poetic art forms, and the master who devoted his life to it. Gyotaku: The Donation of Boshu Nagase by Daniel Pardo celebrates gyotaku — the traditional Japanese art of fish printing — and the man who practiced it for over sixty years.
Boshu Nagase created breathtaking impressions of marine life that capture both scientific detail and spiritual beauty. This richly illustrated volume honors his dedication: six decades of pressing inked fish to paper, finding art in nature’s most fleeting forms. Nagase’s dedication — six decades of a single art form — is itself the story: mastery as a form of devotion.
For lovers of Japanese art and craft — beauty, printed from the sea. Pardo’s volume — richly illustrated with Nagase’s finest impressions — is both a tribute to a master and an introduction to an art form most Western readers have never encountered. Sixty years of devotion, pressed into pages. A master, a craft, and sixty years of devotion.
Gyotaku: The Donation of Boshu Nagase by Daniel Pardo celebrates one of Japan’s most poetic art forms — and the master who devoted his life to it. Boshu Nagase practised gyotaku, the traditional Japanese art of fish printing, for over sixty years, creating breathtaking impressions of marine life that capture both scientific detail and spiritual beauty.
This richly illustrated volume presents a remarkable donation of sixty-five of Nagase’s works, accompanied by Pardo’s insightful text on the history, techniques and philosophy of gyotaku — from the direct method of inking a real fish to the indirect method that adds colour and relief.
Part art book, part cultural history, it is an essential purchase for lovers of Japanese art, marine life and printmaking. Discover the soul of the sea through the eyes of a true master — a book to treasure, browse and return to again and again.
Sixty-five stunning prints, one extraordinary artistic legacy. A unique gift for Japanophiles and ocean lovers.
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