These six woodblock prints are the work of Nakayama Tadashi whose prints often feature
splashes of many colors, woven into shapes of almost surreal horses and birds.

Since he began making woodblocks fifty years ago, Nakayama has, to date, completed only
about two-hunded and fifty prints. His techniques are quite laborious, sometimes requiring
more than fifteen blocks, forty or more colors and involving fifty stages in the printing
process. Five of his horse prints are presented here together with one of three birds
in flight and they are certainly among my favorites.