Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 24 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 24

Poem: A one-legged frog is swimming around. You, as you are now, are perfect.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 21 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 20

Poem: "Heart" This is one word. To safeguard it is better than trying to save life.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 20

Poem: We were afraid of you. That's why we risked our lives.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 21 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 33

Poem: On a snowy day, in the little basket, the seeds wait for spring.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 20 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2002
Edition: TP

Poem: Today several cuckoos flew into a grove of tall trees. Oh, I saw the path in the sky those cuckoos followed to fly.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 29

Poem: On Buddha's birthday, the child asks. "Did you go to the temple?" "Yes, I did." "What did you do there?" "I had lunch." "Was that all you did?" "Oops, my bodhisattva daughter!"

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2000
Edition: of 43

Poem: A foggy day. Beside the bamboo grove. I warm my heart with a sip of tea.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 23 inches
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 53

Poem: Sleep without dream, labor without thought. With a clear, empty mind everyday is a good day.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 x 13 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2002
Edition: of 33

Poem: On a drizzly day, we drank red tea outside in the rain. 

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 27

Poem: Early in the spring, the dandelion has not yet blossomed. The mind already sees its spores flying away.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2004
Edition: of 41

Poem: A moving seed cannot sprout. Stay calm.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 41

Poem: Dear! Do you hear the birds chirping? The chirping you hand over to me!

Medium: Etching, collagraph, relief, chine-collé
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1967
Date finished: 1998
Edition: of 30

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):

"Collagraph is a medium that became popular in the ‘60s after synthetic adhesives and plastics became more readily available. Artists from all over the world were invited to visit the studio of Glen Alps in Seattle, WA to try out the process of gluing substrates, scribing marks into the dried substrates, and printing the results as intaglio plates. This relatively new medium has continued its popularity  in the studios of contemporary artists, like Akiko Taniguchi. In ‘Atom’, Taniguchi is using texture and layering on her collagraph to pull the viewer into her 10x8 inch world of abstraction. In it, viewers get to explore the word ‘atom’ within complimentary red and green hues and explosive almond shapes. Every square inch of the print is delightfully filled with new and interesting textures that only collagraph can offer."

Series: Holes for Loneliness Games
Medium: Etching, aquatint
Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (image) 15 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1986
Date finished: 2012
Edition: of 20

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):
"The level of technical detail in this etching is intricate - from each character’s particular facial expression to the curtains, hanging plants, mirror, and archway tile designs. Takeda is so good at taking simple everyday things like drinking coffee at a coffee shop and turning them into interesting shadow box scenes. The viewer can’t help but look at each of the people in this crowded room and wonder what they are all thinking behind their wide eyes. The only character not looking at one another or at themselves in the mirror is the person directly in front of the viewer. Rather than participating in the gossip or chatter, this person is rolling their eyes and looking up at the ceiling, while they drink their coffee."

Medium: Etching, aquatint
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (image) 14 x 25 1/2 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1986
Date finished: 2015
Edition: of 15

Series: The Small Shady Rooms
Medium: Etching, aquatint
Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (image) 11 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1986
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 15

Medium: Etching, aquatint
Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 20 3/8 inches (image) 14 x 25 1/4 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1986
Date finished: 2015
Edition: of 15

Recommended by Sam (Owner & Director):
"Contemporary Japanese artist Azumi Takeda's etching Full, Full, Full is part of a wonderful series showing groups of people waiting, engrossed in various activities, or, as in this case, the artist focuses on the detritus left behind that references what they had been doing. There is order with the placement of the disparate objects, that speaks about each of the individuals that is no longer in the room. Takeda's use of the etching and aquatint process, is perfect for the detail required."