Namiyo at Hanauma Bay

 

Masami Teraoka

  1936 - PRESENT (biography)

1985  

18-color lithograph with photography 

24 7/8 x 35 7/8" paper and image 

pencil, verso 

19/150 plus 36 various proofs= 186 

 

Editions Press work #587 

buff Arches Cover 

published 

Editions Press, San Francisco (chop, lower right) 

24719 

Price On Request 

A modern, tongue-in-cheek take on traditional Edo-era woodcuts, "Namiyo at Hanauma Bay" comes from the Hawaii Snorkel and Wave series, which Teraoka loosely based on Utamaro's "Pearl Diver" series. In this scene, a diver has removed her mask as she senses the tentacles of an octopus caressing her legs.