Series Spotlight - Keika Hasegawa
Keika Hasegawa was a late 19th Century Japanese Artist, she produced Japanese woodblock prints of chrysanthemums - the official flower of Japan and symbolic of the sun, perfection, long life and nobility. Each woodblock print features a long single-stemmed flower and illustrates the pages of the book One Hundred Chrysanthemums, printed in 1893.
Woodblock printing is a technique that was widely used throughout East Asia from the 7th Century until the 19th Century. Beginning in China as a method of printing on textiles, it entered Japan in the 8th century where it became a very important art form, particularly during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Ukiyo-e is the best-known type of Japanese woodblock art print