Kaempfer Fund

 

柴田是真 Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)
The four elegant pastimes - music, the game of go, calligraphy and painting

Two prints making for the Heinz Kaempfer Fund / the Society for Japanese Arts

京都之図 / KYOTO 2025 / Edition 50
江戸之図 / EDO 2025 / Edition 50

Copy-etching on copper plate / Woodcut on Shina Plywood

* Charbonnel Etching oil based ink - Oriental Blue (for EDO) and Prussian Blue (for KYOTO)

* Sakura Mat Water color Paint / Yamato Nori (tapioca starch)

石州楮紙　Sekishu Kozoshi Whitish: 95g used for etching, 55g used for woodcut
100% Sekishu Kozo / cooked in liye / dried on a wooden board (Ginkgo)
Papermaker So Kubota (Sekishu Washi Kubota)
* You can buy the Sekishu Kozoshi 95g, 55g and more Sekishu Washi at Carta Pura (Munich, Germany). Product no.600-122 (95g), 600-102 (55g)

These two prints, created in 2025 by Yuriko Miyoshi, use old maps of Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) from 1863, arranged to the same scale, together with the ideas using the image from the Japanese paint by Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891).