Ôtsu-e. Imagerie populaire du Japon. Afrique du Nord or tramps who populate a

or tramps who populate a whole section of his production

each people engraved their ethnic identity by choosing the specific representations they displayed on its faces

Excerpt from ATSUME GUSA

Calder also approached his work as a painter

Ôtsu-e. Imagerie populaire du Japon. Afrique du Nord or tramps who populate atsu e are Japanese folk paintings in a naive and spirited style, sometimes satirical or moral in nature, which were produced between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries by anonymous artisans in small towns around tsu, not far from Kyoto. They disappeared with the modernization of Japan and only a few hundred remain today. In 1920, a master seal engraver, Kusunose Nichinen, who lamented the loss of this unique testimony to the visual culture of