Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
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    As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    So we turn back through the forest, walk among trees with long blue needles.
It’s silent here, like the silence when the hawk nears.
These are woods that forgive everything but forget nothing.
Kuwagata Keisai Kuwagata Keisai (1764-1824) was originally named Kitao Masayoshi.  He was born in Edo of a samurai family and trained under the color-print master Kitao Shigemasa, illustrator of books.  In 1794 he was appointed painter-in-attendance on the daimyo of Tsuyama.  After three years, he was sent to study with Yosen-in Korenobu, leading painter of the Kano school.  Here he was given the new name Kuwagata Keisai.  At this time he was in charge of painting scrolls for Sadanobu.  Later he became famous for teach-yourself art books.  Keisai returned to printmaking when Sadanobu’s policies were no longer in practice, and print making was again seen as an acceptable art form. http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/wriston/collections/jwp/Kuwagata%20Keisai.htm
Eight-headed Dragon in Waves Dragon on waves Japanese, Edo period Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai), Japanese, 1764–1824
Yoshino, cut from a page of the book Sansui ryakuga shiki (Landscape Sketches) 山水略画式　「吉野」 Japanese, Edo period, 1800 (Kansei 12) Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai), Japanese, 1764–1824
Twilight Snow at Hira (Hira bosetsu), from the series Eight Views of Ômi (Ômi hakkei) 「近江八景　比良暮雪」 Japanese, Edo period Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai), Japanese, 1764–1824
Takinogawa, cut from a page of the book Sansui ryakuga shiki (Landscape Sketches) 山水略画式　「滝の川」 Japanese, Edo period, 1800 (Kansei 12) Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai), Japanese, 1764–1824
Sansui ryakuga shiki [Keisai sensei hitsu] Sansui 山水略画式 Japanese, Edo period, 1800 (Kansei 12) Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai), Japanese, 1764–1824
Sansui ryakuga shiki [Keisai sensei hitsu] Sansui 山水略画式 Japanese, Edo period, 1800 (Kansei 12) Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai), Japanese, 1764–1824
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