{"title":"Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the floating world to the Rinpa school — Japanese woodblock and brush, where a heron or a lute became something to keep. Public-domain masters, on midweight cotton.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hishikawa-moronobu-after-a-little-music-1","title":"Hishikawa Moronobu — After a Little Music","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eFour centuries before screenprinting, Japan was already printing in flat black line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis is a \u003cem\u003esumizuri-e\u003c\/em\u003e — an early ukiyo-e woodblock printed in a single sumi-black key line, before colour ever entered the medium. Hishikawa Moronobu carved the line that would define Japanese print for two centuries. And that is exactly why it belongs on a screen-printed tee: a woodblock key-block \u003cstrong\u003eis\u003c\/strong\u003e a flat black stencil — serigraphy is the same idea, four hundred years later. We print the one sumi line, nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eHishikawa Moronobu (c. 1618–1694) is called the father of ukiyo-e — the first to sign his prints and to lift the \"floating world\" out of book illustration into art in its own right. His elegant, economical line is the template every later master, from Hokusai to Hiroshige, would build on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eHishikawa Moronobu · \u003cem\u003eAfter a Little Music\u003c\/em\u003e, Edo, c. 1673 · Art Institute of Chicago, accession 1973.645.5 · Public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/moronobu-the-line-before-colour\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3a352c;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566665316,"sku":"SA-MORONOBU-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48721033625700,"sku":"SA-MORONOBU-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48721033658468,"sku":"SA-MORONOBU-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48721033691236,"sku":"SA-MORONOBU-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48721033724004,"sku":"SA-MORONOBU-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48721033756772,"sku":"SA-MORONOBU-3XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/hishikawa-moronobu-after-a-little-music-1-1.jpg?v=1783890128"},{"product_id":"kamisaka-sekka-white-heron","title":"Kamisaka Sekka — White Heron","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA heron at night, in four flat colours — modern a century before modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eMomoyogusa\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Flowers of a Hundred Worlds\"), Kamisaka Sekka's woodblock masterpiece of the Rimpa revival. Sekka built his images from flat, bordered planes — a black lattice wing, a slab of night water, a band of reeds, the white bird and its moon. It is design thinking a hundred years early, and it separates into flat screens with no compromise: four spot inks, zero gradients. The taupe shirt is the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eKamisaka Sekka (1866–1942) was the last great master of the Rimpa school and, in many ways, the first modern Japanese designer — he pulled a 300-year tradition into the 20th century with a boldness that still reads as contemporary. \u003cem\u003eMomoyogusa\u003c\/em\u003e (1909–1910) is his best-known work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eKamisaka Sekka · \u003cem\u003eMomoyogusa · Shirosagi (White Heron)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1909–10 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1988.23.1.19 · Public domain (CC0)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/white-heron-the-last-of-the-rinpa\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3f6b57;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566927460,"sku":"SA-WHITEHERON-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48721033789540,"sku":"SA-WHITEHERON-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48721033822308,"sku":"SA-WHITEHERON-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48721033855076,"sku":"SA-WHITEHERON-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48721033887844,"sku":"SA-WHITEHERON-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/kamisaka-sekka-white-heron-1.jpg?v=1783890148"},{"product_id":"katagami-flying-fish","title":"Katagami — Flying Fish","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA screen-print of a stencil — the medium talking about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003ekatagami\u003c\/em\u003e is a Japanese paper stencil used to resist-dye patterns onto kimono cloth (\u003cem\u003ekatazome\u003c\/em\u003e), on the same principle as the screen that prints this shirt. This one shows flying fish leaping among reeds. Its material is the whole story: mulberry paper treated with fermented persimmon juice, reinforced with fine silk threads — and those silk threads are, quite literally, the bridge from paper stencil to silkscreen. We print it the way the stencil dyed cloth: the shirt \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e the indigo field, and the fish are resist-dyed in cream. One ink, faithful to the craft — the tool that made textiles, become a textile. Colour is never ours to add.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the craft\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eKatagami were cut by hand from washi paper and used across Japan for centuries to dye cloth — a single kimono could require dozens. In the 19th century they reached Europe, where they helped shape both Art Nouveau and the birth of silkscreen printing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · \u003cem\u003eKatagami, Flying Fish\u003c\/em\u003e · Japan, late 19th–early 20th century · accession 1946-104-8 · Public domain (CC0)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/flying-fish-the-first-silkscreen-was-paper\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#2f3d6e;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566960228,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48734801363044,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48734801395812,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48734801428580,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48734801461348,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48734801494116,"sku":"SA-FLYINGFISH-3XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/katagami-flying-fish-1.jpg?v=1783890157"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/collections\/japan.oembed","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}