HISASHI OTSUKA. ORIGINAL Painting on Silk. Was $6000 at Images International Gallery in Honolulu and was purchased at a discount for $4800 in 1983. See photograph 9. Japanese Doll, 1983, original mixed media painting with gouache and ink on silk, 24" x 20" (framed size: 26" x 22") signed/dated lower left. In a Koa Wood Frame. We found another original piece by Otsuka called Contemplation, a 32" x 23" offered on another site for $11,400 described as Well Priced. See photograph 10.

Like the samurai in many of his paintings on fabric, Hisashi Otsuka is an artist of remarkable dedication. Schooled in Zen and the martial arts, he has lived and worked by the warrior’s code of discipline and duty. Rooted in Japanese tradition yet adventurous in nature, he is known throughout the world for his boldness of color and style that mark him as truly unique.
Otsuka’s life is a study in art itself. Born in Tokyo in 1948, he apprenticed at the age of 15 to Tateo Jo, one of Japan’s exalted kimono designers. For years he mixed his mentor’s paints, washed his brushes, and repeated over and over the lessons of essential precision. Ten years later, Jo paid his pupil the highest honor a teacher can bestow. He purchased one of Otsuka’s original paintings to keep in his own collection.
Otsuka’s work today is a powerful balance of ancient Eastern techniques and modern Western ideas. Like a concert musician with perfect pitch, he has perfect color memory and sense. His time-honored poets and warriors, kabuki figures, ukiyo-e women, and elegant calligraphy are steeped in the classical past. Yet in color and composition, his work achieves a vigorous, contemporary context. Monumental in scope and meticulous in detail, it offers a total aesthetic of heroic and subtle impact at once.
Otsuka came to the West – to Hawaii – in 1979. Until that time his painting had been historical in subject and theme. But now it has emerged from the past in ways that are very exciting.
In his brilliant neo-deco style – a dramatic new movement in the world of art – Otsuka’s compositions have evolved to a decorative elegance. Otsuka’s art has achieved an important transition: a cross-cultural excellence that not only appeals to East and West artistically, but also brings them together in understanding. This, after all, is Otsuka’s personal mission, and he pursues it with splendid dedication.
In New York, London, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Hawaii, Otsuka’s one-man shows have earned the highest praise. His international prominence increases year by year, making him truly a dominant force on the world art scene. To Otsuka, life and art create each other. He, the master, the warrior, devotes himself to the fabric of both, wielding his brush like a sword.
the fabric of both, wielding his brush like a sword.

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