Ukiyoe woodblock print of the advancing giants "Attack of the giants" Limited Edition

The previous edition sold out on the same day!

A new color version of the collaboration Ukiyoe between "Shingeki no Kyojin" and a masterpiece is now available!

This Ukiyoe woodblock print is a collaboration with "Shinkage no Kyojin" which is popular all over the world.

Thank you for your patience! Finally, "Attack of the Giants" will be available at Ukiyoe Kobo!

The motif is "Soma no Kouchiura" (1845-46), a masterpiece by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a Ukiyoe artist who led the late Edo period as a "master of strange ideas. It depicts Oyake Taro Mitsukuni, a vassal of Minamoto no Yorinobu, exterminating a skull, and is one of the most famous ukiyoe paintings in Japan, which still enjoys great popularity today due to its unique composition and power.

The Japanese painter Shiozaki Akira has created an original print that perfectly matches the world view of this masterpiece and the Shinkage no Kyojin, and the collaboration between these two representative Japanese works of art that have been created almost 200 years ago was realized. In November, a new color version was also released.

The new color version features a new background color, with a gradation of orange sky and forest green outside the walls, bringing the work closer to the worldview of the "Attack on the Titans. Please take a look at it.

The size of the print is nearly twice the size of a standard ukiyoe woodblock print to maximize the appeal of "The Charge of the Colossal Titan".

The size of the print is nearly twice the size of a standard ukiyoe woodblock print to maximize the appeal of "The Charge of the Colossal Titan".

Born in Machida City, Tokyo in 1972

Graduated from Tama Art University, Graduate School of Fine Arts

Focusing mainly on Japanese paintings from the Heian to Edo periods, Shiozaki reevaluates the diversity of themes and craftsmanship, and reconstructs the style and essence of the period to create two-dimensional paintings that appeal to the aesthetic sense and sensitivity of contemporary Japanese people, thereby presenting the existence and potential of "Japanese painting" 

in the art world.

Member of Kyoto Woodblock Craft Association

Vice President of Kyoto Branch of Ukiyo-e Woodblock Engraving and Printmaking Techniques Preservation Association

Born in 1968 in Kyoto.

Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Printmaking, Woodblock Printmaking Course.

Studied woodblock printmaking under Tokuriki Tomikichiro at the publisher Matsukichiro.

Studied woodblock printing under Akira Kurosaki.

Studied engraving under engraver Osamu Hotta at publisher "Ryoeido".

Vice Director, Ukiyo-e Woodblock Engraving and Printmaking Techniques Preservation Association, Kyoto Branch

Director of Kyoto Woodblock Craft Association

Born in Kumamoto, Kyushu in 1958.

Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Department of Fine Arts, majoring in Western-style painting.

Apprenticed to Sato Mokuhanga Studio and studied printing under printer Keizo Sato.

Ichibei Iwano succeeded to the name Ichibei Iwano IX in 1978.

In June 2000, he was designated a Living National Treasure.

He has devoted himself exclusively to making raw Houshiki paper using only Kozo (paper mulberry) without using wood pulp.

His strong yet delicate washi, made with the ancient techniques handed down in Echizen washi, is used by many artists and ukiyoe woodblock prints as printing paper. The paper made by Ichibei's predecessor (8th generation) was used by Pablo Picasso as print paper.

Ukiyoe artist active from the late Edo period to the end of the Edo period.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) is known as "the artist of strange ideas" and "Kuniyoshi of samurai pictures." Even today, many artists and Japanese tattoo artists use him as a motif, and he is a popular ukiyoe artist both in Japan and abroad.