Artist · 8 prints
Komura Settai Prints
About Komura Settai
Komura Settai (1887–1940) was a Japanese painter, illustrator, print designer and stage designer. He studied nihonga, Japanese-style painting, with Araki Kanpō from 1903, entered the nihonga course of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1904, and graduated in 1908. He then worked on woodblock-printed copies of old paintings for the art journal Kokka.
Settai worked across painting, illustration, woodblock prints and the theatre, where he designed stage sets for kabuki and other productions. In the 1930s he illustrated serial novels by the writer Kunieda Kanji for newspapers, including Osen. His illustrations for Kunieda's novels are held by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Komura Settai prints: reproductions of the Japanese shin-hanga woodblock prints of Komura Settai, the illustrator and stage designer. The collection includes Snowy Morning, Spring Rain, Green Willow, Starry Night, River Bank, Tsukuba and two versions of Fallen Leaves, one with a beauty holding a maple leaf.
Our selection focuses on weather and the seasons: morning snow, spring rain, fallen leaves, a green willow and a starry night, with the river bank and Mount Tsukuba. Most titles name a season, a time of day or a kind of weather.
These prints suit bedrooms, studies and reading corners, and work well hung together as a seasonal set. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
