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We interviewed Eriko Yoshida (吉田 枝里子), a Tokyo-based artist who paints playful ukiyo-e prints with contemporary elements and abstract paintings in bright pink tones. She is currently creating a new type of art that fuses the two. ―What made you start to paint Ukiyo-e? Eriko:My grandfather used to work in the Kabuki industry, so I was…

We interviewed Reiko Ikame (井亀 令子), a Okayama-based artist.She expresses scenes of an “elsewhere” she dreamed of since childhood using the technique of sinking-in gold (沈金技法) in Wajima lacquerware. Wajima lacquerware is a traditional lacquerware produced in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The technique involves layering lacquer on wood, allowing it to dry to create lacquerware…