{"id":113,"date":"2025-09-08T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:10:34","slug":"head-of-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/09\/head-of-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tetsuro Komai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Japanese, 1920-1976<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Head of a Man<\/em><strong>, ca. 1950<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Woodcut on paper, 19\/30, 16 x 11 3\/4 inches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles in memory of her father, Charles Burton Fahs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1980.7.6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-739x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-768x1064.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-1109x1536.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-1478x2048.jpg 1478w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/09\/10-1980.7.6-scaled.jpg 1848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tetsuro Komai is best known for his copper plate etchings begun around 1935. With the exception of time in France (April 1954-November 1955), Komai spent his prolific though short career in Japan. During the early to mid-1950s he turned his attention from color abstract etchings to a period known as shiro to kuro no sekai (\u81ea\u3068\u9ed2\u306e\u4e16\u754c), the &#8220;world of black and white.&#8221; In this work, Komai pays homage to the okubie (tia), &#8220;large-head portrait&#8221; tradition connected to the late 19th century Japanese kabuki (\u6b4c\u821e\u4f0e) actor prints. The alternating patterns of black and white ink on the face reference Utagawa Kunimasa&#8217;s 1796 large heaf portrait of actor Ichikawa Ebiz\u014d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tetsuro Komai Japanese, 1920-1976 Head of a Man, ca. 1950 Woodcut on paper, 19\/30, 16 x 11 3\/4 inches Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/09\/head-of-a-man\/\" title=\"Head of a Man\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":8074,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}