IWAO AKIYAMA (1921-2014)

IWAO AKIYAMA (1921-2014)

SHOWA ERA, 1980

A Japanese woodblock print entitled Dou ni mo naranai (There is nothing else I can do) depicting a small black owl and the large shadow of another bird behind it, a poem by Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) above reading as 'tottering, tottering, there's nothing else I can do', signed in pencil by the artist, numbered 13/200 and dated 1980, framed and glazed, 57cm x 43.5cm.

Provenance: from the Milne Henderson collection of Japanese art.

Cf. the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Akiyama Iwao: prints and poems, Winter 1985, no.40.