Ansei and Toshiko Uchima: Weaving Colors and Memories

25.8×18.6 cm

208 pages

The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama

2025 fiscal year

2,500 yen (incl. tax)

Contents
Part I    Ansei Uchima [1921–2000]
  Chapter 1: Encountering Printmaking̶ The Japan Years [1940–1959]
  Chapter 2: Exploring Spatial Expression Through Printmaking [1960–1976]
  Chapter 3: Weaving Color̶Forest Byobu [1977–1982]
Part II   Toshiko Uchima [1918–2000]
  Chapter 1: Democrat Artists Association (Demokrato) Years [1953–1956]
  Chapter 2: Woodcut Print Years [1956–1968]
  Chapter 3: Weaving Memory––Collage and Assemblage [1968–2000]
Part III   Related Artists––The Postwar Japan-U.S. Artist Network

My Parents: Our European Interlude (1970–1975)　(Anju Uchima)
Ansei and Toshiko Uchima: Fifty Years of Practice　(Harumi Nishizawa)
The ‘Japan period’ of Ansei and Toshiko Uchima: focusing on the 1950s　(Noriko Kuwahara)
Chapter Commentaries
Biography, Selected Exhibitions, Selected Collections
 
Authors
  Anju Uchima
  Noriko Kuwahara
  Harumi Nishizawa
  Maki Ohara
  Aina Takahashi
  Yūko Daicho
  Rieko Kimura
  Ayuka Sato

Research Advisor
  Noriko Kuwahara（Art Historian）

Translators
  Catherine Lealand
  Chiaki Ajioka

Editors
  The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama:
    Harumi Nishizawa,  Maki Ohara, Aina Takahashi (Intern)
  Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art:
    Yūko Daicho,  Rieko Kimura
  The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama:
    Ayuka Sato,  Itaru Hirano

Designer
  Toshiyuki Bamen

Produced by
  Livre

Printed and bound in Japan by
  Mitsumura Printing Company Ltd.

Published by
  The Tokyo Shimbun ©2026