Japanese Art Postcard – Wappen - Shiitake Mushroom, Art Print

Art Postcard handcrafted in Kyoto, Japan — original Kyoto art to send, frame or collect.
Each design comes from Mizunoki, a painting studio in Kameoka, Kyoto. A care home opened there on the east bank of the Hozu river in 1959, and five years later a painting class began in its free hours. The painter Nishigaki Chūichi was asked to teach it, and he kept at it, carefully, for decades. The class ran until 2001.
Around twenty thousand works came out of those rooms — for scale, the National Museums of Modern Art in Tokyo and in Kyoto hold about thirteen thousand each. In the 1990s the paintings were introduced as Japanese art brut, and in 1994 works by eight of the painters entered the permanent Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2012 the collection was given a museum of its own: a Taishō-era townhouse in Kameoka that had once been a barber's shop, converted by the architect Kumiko Inui.
Itsuo Ozasa came to Mizunoki in 1962 and was in the painting class from its first year. At the beginning he drew the same picture over and over, sheet after sheet, until his teacher took to calling it "the Ozasa Printing Works." Then he was given a large canvas and oil paint, and the work opened out. He loved animals, cats above all; the diary he kept in his room always had a cat drawn in it somewhere. His work is held in Lausanne.
• Design: Wappen Postcard - Shiitake Mushroom by Itsuo Ozasa
• Original art, printed in Japan — slight variations in colour and grain are the natural charm of handmade work; no two pieces are alike
• Arrives carefully packed — ready for gifting
Specifications — Material: Original art, printed in Japan · Origin: Kyoto, Japan · Maker: Mizunoki
Handmade in Kyoto, Japan by Mizunoki. Direct from the maker.
【日本直送】京都职人手工制作，每件手作独一无二，精心包装，适合自用或送礼 🎁