Maeda Morikazu 前田守一, 1932-

Morikazu Maeda was born in Shizuoka prefecture. He was influenced by the prints of Yamaguchi Gen. He makes highly patterned and somewhat abstract landscape prints. His signature, when written in Western script, is often in mirror image.

See:

  • Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1992), p. 83.

Maeda_Morikazu_flow (112K) Creator.Personal Name: 前田守一, 1932-
Creator.Personal Name: Maeda Morikazu, 1932-
Creator.Role: print-maker
Title: なみにのる [to go with the flow; to go with the times]
Description: colored woodblock print; pencil signed in lower margin, signature is a mirror image; title in Japanese; numbered 14/100; dated 1981.
Type: Woodcuts.
Subject: Rivers.
Subject: Bridges.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: Prints.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: paper 21 ½ x 7 ¾ in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
ID: Maeda Morikazu L-1
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
Signature (mirror image):
Maeda_Morikazu_flow_sig (80K) 		Title:
Maeda_Morikazu_flow_title (208K)
Visual Arts