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Masashi Ozaki Meister (print printer)

Last Updated May 8, 2023

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Masashi Ozaki
Printmaker

Fiscal 2009 Selection (14th term)
Lives and works in Tsurumi Ward

Born in 1950, Born in Sapporo
In 1975, Print House Oem founded
He has served as a special technical advisor at Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., a part-time lecturer at Iwate University special artist, and a lecturer at Setagaya Art Museum.

Incorporating new technologies based on traditional technologies

Suriers who manage print studios often produce their own works, but Mr. Ozaki became a `` painter's brush '' based on the belief that a print artist is behind the painter's back, and he became a `` painter's brush ''. We always aim to dye the color of the painter, and respond to requests from many famous artists.
"For craftsmen, learning traditional techniques is fundamental. It is the responsibility required of modern craftsmen to use new technologies and provide them to artists. "
He has been a lecturer at a number of museums and art universities, such as self-manufacturing copperplate print ink, tailoring rasa for use in copperplate print printing, and preparing and handling printing paper, and has handed down the skills of a printer.
In addition to employee education, we also operate workshop studios for the general public, and strive to spread our technology and the world of printing to the general public.

Meister's skill

Ozaki Masashi Meister's work

In Europe, the United States, and Japan, it is common for printers to be divided into woodblock prints, copperplate prints, and stone prints.

However, Mr. Ozaki learned not only woodcut techniques he learned from childhood, but also stonecuts and copperplate print techniques from the age of 15, and also went to a printing shop to learn offset printing and printing techniques and gravure printing techniques. Was.

For this reason, Mr. Ozaki has a deep knowledge and experience in wood, copper, stone, silk, and digital techniques, and has a deep knowledge and experience of wood and materials used in all versions, and is a printer capable of comprehensive printing. I have a unique skill.

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Stone plate

Since childhood, he has studied woodcut carving and printing techniques from the father of a woodcut painter.

Enchanted by the stone prints of Kojin Toneyama, who met when he was in sixth grade, he studied lithograph printing as an apprentice of a printing craftsman while in high school.

After graduating from high school, he joined the Japan Art Federation. At the age of 23, he passed the Agency for Cultural Affairs as an overseas art trainee, and was engaged in printmaking by a leading painter in Europe in France.

After returning to Japan, he established a print studio in Tokyo at the age of 25, and after several relocations, moved his studio to Yokohama at the age of 47.

He is involved in printmaking by many painters such as Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Tatsuo Takayama, and Kojin Toneyama, and in the production of Akira Kurosawa's print collection "Ran".

In addition, on behalf of Tokusei Paper Co., Ltd., we will develop and improve print paper.

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