Comprehensive data on Miyata Saburō 宮田三郎 (1924-2013) : https://pages.uoregon.edu/jsmacollections/home/artists/miyata-saburo-1924-2013.html 18 prints, impeccable condition " His major work, created over a period of fourteen years from 1970 to 1984, was a twelve volume series of twenty prints each of self-carved and self-printed woodblock prints depicting the scenery of Japan titled Miyata Saburō mokuhanga shū, Nihon no fūkei (Miyata Saburō Collection of Woodblock Prints, Scenery of Japan). (See below for a photo of the third collection as issued.) After the twelve volumes were finished, he created two additional collections of scenes of Shinshū Province (now Nagano Prefecture) for a total of fourteen volumes. In remarks on the artist’s 2016 posthumous exhibition of landscapes, the Komagane Kogen Art Museum tells us that Saburō wanted to produce these prints before the scenes they depict were “gradually lost to the world through the destruction of the environment.” " From 1970 onward, he spent more than ten years with the goal of completing one series/collection each year of scenic views of Japan, leading to Nihon fūkei (Scenery of Japan), 12 sets, plus an additional series Zoku Shinshū (Shinshū, Continued) and Zoku zoku Shinshū (Shinshū, Completed Part II), for a total of 14 sets/series. The prints making up this collection have been described by art critic Yasuo Kamon 嘉門安雄 (1913-2007) as being "drawn not with lines but with surfaces and without shadows, his paintings are plain and simple." In 1983-1984 the artist published a compendium of his work in five limited edition volumes titled Miyata Saburō mokuhanga zenshū 宮田三郎木版画全集 (The Complete Woodblock Prints of Miyata Saburō) and in 1984 he was awarded the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon awarded by the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. In 2006 he was made an honorary citizen of Sakuho town (in Nagano Prefecture). In 2016 and 2017 two exhibitions of his prints were held in his home prefecture featuring his landscape prints, the posters from which are reproduced below. Miyata passed away on November 20, 2013 at the age of 89.