About the artist:

Sadanobu Hasegawa III was born in Osaka as the son of Sadanobu II. He continued his family tradition and tried to adopt the art of Japanese printmaking to the 20th century with changing tastes and changing markets for this old trade. Sadanobu III picks up old subjects of the ukiyo-e tradition like the kabuki theater, the bunraku puppet theater, beautiful young girls from Kyoto, genre scenes and events from Japan's medieval history and legends. The artist shows his subjects in a style that obviously caters for a foreign market with a kind of Japanese Disneyland image.