Haku maki biography of christopher columbus
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Introduction
Haku Maki Catalogue Raisonné, A Work in Progress
Haku Maki (1924 – 2000) was a Japanese artist of the second half of the 20th century. He first made his name and his living by producing prints featuring Chinese characters (kanji). His life as an artist dates from the mid-1950s, when the earliest known Maki prints began appearing.
Haku Maki was born in Aso-machi in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1924, as Maejima Tadaaki.
Haku maki biography of christopher columbus
In the late 1950s, he selected the name Haku Maki to show his humility and self-styled confusion. If translated literally, "Maki" is Roll, "Haku" is White.
Maki produced about 2000 different images. This makes him one of the most prolific Japanese print makers of his day.
Yet he did not keep a running list of the prints as he made them. Moreover, there is no catalogue raisonné of his work. I have tried to build one by, over many years, compiling a very large archive of images of his work. I co