Monday 6 November 2023

I Do Like The Designs In Japanese Wood Block Prints,

and these are some here, but with a difference, 


they are all of butterflies,

Yuho Tanaka (田中幽峰) was an accomplished artist and draughtsman active in Kyoto during the late-1800s, 

at the height of his career in the 1890s he created numerous graphic patterns inspired by butterflies that were eventually compiled into a book titled hyaku-cho-zuan, or One Hundred Butterfly Designs,

the designs were penned after the Meiji restoration when Japan had opened their doors after 200 years of isolation,

but each one still retains its distinctly Japanese flavour, 

and now the good news, thanks to Japan’s National Diet Library (NDL), all of Tanaka’s images have been made available copyright-free, and for use both for individual and commercial purposes, You can see all of Yuho Tanaka’s butterfly designs here, what a great treasure trove of ideas for todays designers.


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