青幻舎 SEIGENSHA Art Publishing

Takanori Oguiss (Ogisu,1901–1986) moved from Japan to France at the age of twenty-six. Paris remained his home and the subject of his ogisu art for nearly six decades—he moved away only once, during World War II—until his death at the age of eighty-four.

Having initially earned recognition through oil paintings, Oguiss began working in lithography late in life. Unlike oils, lithography does not allow for the application of layers of pigment; the image must be distilled into a limited range of colors as the plates are prepared. Oguiss’s lithographs, refined to their essentials and yet characterized by rich tonal variation, continue to captivate viewers to this day.

This catalogue brings together 114 lithographs in both color and black and white. They capture Paris’s long sloping streets, brightly colored shopfronts, and other intimate streetscapes—scenes from the city Oguiss loved so dearly.