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Poem 69-65 (Lone Boat) by Haku Maki
Poem 69-65 (Lone Boat)
Haku Maki
Title
Poem 69-65 (Lone Boat)
Artist
Haku Maki
1924 - 2000 (biography)Year
1969
Technique
woodcut, cement paste collagraph, and stencil, printed in colors
Image Size
18 7/8 x 8 1/2" image size
Signature
pencil signed, lower right; artist's red seal in image, lower left
Edition Size
129 of 156
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned
Reference
Haku Maki catalogue raisonne (online) no. 1218; Tretiak p. 5
Paper
textured torinoko wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
25092
Price
$800.00
Description
In the book The Life and Works of Haku Maki by Daniel Tretiak (Outskirts Press, Inc. Denver, CO. 2007), this work is illustrated on page 5 along with two other calligraphic prints. In the description on page 4, Tretiak notes that the calligraphy used in the image is from the Chinese "Grass writing" technique, Cao Shu, which refers to what the West calls cursive.
Much of Maki's work in his most productive years was based on "kanji," a style of Chinese calligraphy that was adapted by the Japanese as trade between the two countries became more prevalent in the 5th century AD.