{"id":374,"date":"2013-07-10T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/?page_id=374"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:27:25","slug":"fishermans-dream","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/fishermans-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisherman&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/fish_dream.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318\" alt=\"Fisherman's Dream\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/07\/fish_dream.gif\" width=\"777\" height=\"569\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fisherman\u2019s Dream, <\/strong>Noboru Sawai, woodblock print with intaglio, 1991<\/p>\n<p>Noboru Sawai was born in Takamatsu, Japan in 1931, but currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. A student of Yoshida Toshi, he was educated at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the University of Minnesota, and at the<strong><\/strong>Yoshida International Hanga Academy in Tokyo, Japan, a famed Japanese print making institute. Sawai is known for combining the traditional Japanese woodcutting medium with contemporary, sometimes provocative, subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>This particular work of Sawai\u2019s is entitled <em>Fisherman\u2019s Dream<\/em>, the title itself containing a dual meaning.\u00a0 On one level, a fisherman\u2019s dream is to collect a bountiful harvest of fish, which are depicted on the platter at the center of the piece. On another level, however, a fisherman\u2019s dream is to fulfill his sexual desire. This dual nature of a fisherman\u2019s dream is shown in the smaller circles at the top of the piece, and in the platter\u2019s border. In these scenes, men are engaging in sexual acts with both women and sea creatures, truly expressing the dual nature of the fisherman\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Anne Lenehan-White and Alex Walton<\/em><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Related Essays<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Anne Lenehan-White\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/fishermans-dream\/anne-lenehan-white\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Anne Lenehan-White<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"75%\" \/>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\">Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;color: #ff4500\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/cwis_policies\/personal_disclaimer.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff4500\"><em>Disclaimer<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fisherman\u2019s Dream, Noboru Sawai, woodblock print with intaglio, 1991 Noboru Sawai was born in Takamatsu, Japan in 1931, but currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. A student of Yoshida Toshi, he was educated at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the University of Minnesota, and at theYoshida International Hanga Academy in Tokyo, Japan, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/exhibitions-2\/yoshida-evolution-exhibition\/gallery\/fishermans-dream\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fisherman&#8217;s Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":296,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full_width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/kucera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}