Ansei Uchima is a Japanese artist specializing in woodblock prints which combine Eastern and Western art forms. Originally born in California in 1921, he didn’t move to Japan until he was 19. He went to school and studied traditional Japanese printmaking, as well as painting. It wasn’t until after World War II that he was introduced to creative print movement or, sosaku hanga, when working as a translator for an American print collector, Oliver Statler.

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