Momiji (Japanese maple)

About Yumiko Kayukawa

Japanese artist Yumiko Kayukawa has lived and worked in the United States for the past six years. Since then, she says she has grown much more interested in her home country. Her images connect the traditional Japanese form of manga with the specific feeling of a younger generation that learned to express itself through an array of media. Originally, manga was an informal form of representation, a narrative snapshot – not a comic strip. The concept was made popular over 200 years ago by the most famous of Japanese artists, Ukiyo-e-Meister Katsushika Hokusai. Yumiko Kayukawa captures this traditional form, translates it for contemporary society, and infuses it with individual elements and… Read more