The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyoe Award 2023

The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyoe Award 2023 now is over!

The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyoe Award 2023: The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing is calling for applications for The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award 2023, inviting everyone worlwide to participate submiting their portafolio.

➜ Short description

The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing is calling for applications for The Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award 2023.

For the Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award 2023, organiser is looking for 21st century ukiyo-e artists that depict “ukiyo” or “the current times.”

Since 2009, the Adachi Contemporary Ukiyo-e Award has produced woodcut prints based on the works that the winners created. This is an opportunity to become an ukiyo-e artist like Hokusai and create works in collaboration with modern-day carvers and printers.

Ukiyo-e prints, which are loved around the world as an iconic part of Japan, are produced through the collaboration of an artist, a carver, and a printer. Hokusai and Hiroshige, among others, were ukiyo-e artists called “eshi,” who were specialists in creating sketches for ukiyo-e prints. The ukiyo-e they created were truly mirrors of the times, reflecting social conditions and historical backgrounds.

Results will be announced around January, 2024.

➜ Submission requirements:

➜ A portfolio of your past works (a book with 2 – 10 pages of A4 or letter size paper)

➜ A portfolio needs to be uploaded digitally as PDF files.

➜ Who may enter?

No restrictions of your career, age, and nationality.

➜ Prize:

➜ 1st Prize - 300,000 yen + your picture will be made as a woodcut print by contemporary artisans and a complete print will be given to you

➜ 2nd Prize - 150,000 yen + your picture will be made as a woodcut print by contemporary artisans and a complete print will be given to you

➜ 3rd Prize - 50,000 yen