These five woodblock prints are the work of
Nakayama Tadashi whose prints often feature
splashes of many colors, woven into shapes
of almost surreal horses and birds.

Since he began making woodblocks fifty years
ago, Nakayama has, to date, completed only
about two-hunded and fifty prints. His
techniques are quite laborious, sometimes
requiring more than fifteen blocks, forty
or more colors and involving fifty
stages in the printing process.

I believe it was in 1964 that Time magazine
carried a story of this artist and his works and
a Nakayama horse print was the cover feature.

Four of his horse prints are presented here
together with one of three birds in flight.