The Met — Department of Asian Art
The Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stewarding one of the most comprehensive holdings of Japanese woodblock prints outside of Japan.
Who they branched from. Who branched from them.
Authored layers
Under the Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji · c. 1831
Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) from Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Three oshiokuri-bune boats struggle against a cresting wave while Mount Fuji appears small at the horizon. This layer references the impression held at The Met (accession JP1847).
Conservation report — Met impression JP1847
2023–2024 conservation assessment covering sheet flattening, foxing remediation, and recto-verso multispectral capture of the Met impression.
Prussian blue stratigraphy across the Thirty-Six Views
Cross-impression XRF mapping of the Prussian blue pigment used in the series. AI-assisted layer separation against a corpus of public-collection impressions.
When their work was branched from
DAO activity
Proposal votes, circles curated, grants received. All ledger-attested. Participation, never popularity.
Contemporary hanga (woodblock) printer and fourth-generation atelier keeper. Working between traditional reproduction technique and contemporary composition.
Institutional archive of Ottoman court manuscripts and miniatures. Provenance-verified digitization programme.
Contemporary miniaturist, working in and with Ottoman court painting traditions.