Born in Gunma prefecture in Japan, Kazuyuki Ohtsu moved to Tokyo at nineteen to study traditional woodblock printmaking. For forty years Ohtsu (b. 1935) served as an assistant to Kiyoshi Saitō, a woodblock artist at the forefront of the sōsaku hanga (creative print) movement. The twelve Ohtsu works reproduced here draw us into lovely, tranquil scenes of natural beauty and harmony.