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Japanese-born Masami Teraoka combines the influences of traditional Japanese art forms and American Pop art, exploiting the cultural and temporal disparities between the traditional style and the contemporary issues and ideas which form his subject matter. After training with traditional Japanese masters, Teraoka moved to Los Angeles to study Western art in 1961. From the 1970s, he began painting watercolours, and later prints, which mimicked the appearance of ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo Period

Chez les Sakai, la sculpture des panneaux de bois (ou gravure d'enseigne) est une histoire de famille ! Reconnus pour leur savoir-faire artisanal, ils signent ceux des grands tournois de Sumotoris, temples célèbres et autres enseignes de prestiges