Tadashi Nakayama (artist)
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is a Japan
ese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e
prints and Western painting
. From 1962-65 he lived in Italy and then England. It has been claimed that "Tadashi Nakayama is one of Japan's leading woodblock print artists."
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e
' is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters...
prints and Western painting
Western painting
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity. Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and Classical modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.Developments...
. From 1962-65 he lived in Italy and then England. It has been claimed that "Tadashi Nakayama is one of Japan's leading woodblock print artists."