Sumiko Okuyama
Contemporary hanga (woodblock) printer and fourth-generation atelier keeper. Working between traditional reproduction technique and contemporary composition.
Who they branched from. Who branched from them.
Authored layers
After Hokusai — hanga study in natural indigo
A contemporary hand-carved and hand-printed woodblock response to the Great Wave, printed on kōzo paper with natural indigo rather than Prussian blue.
Wave grammar — generative study set
A set of 24 AI-generated compositional variations on the Great Wave, produced as a study aid and explicitly marked generative. Source model and seed documented.
When their work was branched from
No attributions received yet.
DAO activity
Proposal votes, circles curated, grants received. All ledger-attested. Participation, never popularity.
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.
Institutional archive of Ottoman court manuscripts and miniatures. Provenance-verified digitization programme.
Contemporary miniaturist, working in and with Ottoman court painting traditions.