BENRIDO COLLOTYPE Limited Edition Portfolio "AI"

This portfolio includes 20 vintage prints of love from the collection of Oriental Art in Europe and the French National Museum Guimet Museum of Oriental Art, focusing on Japanese weddings and Oiran's leisure cultures in Kyoto and Tokyo. It is a collotype print. 18 works are printed in sepia color that is more like the vintage print atmosphere of the original, and 2 works are colored one by one by hand on multicolor printing of collotype. Please enjoy the glamorous theater of love with collotype prints.

Collotype is an interesting fusion between French and Japanese discoveries. The printing process was discovered in France, about 150 years ago. It was a new style of printing that combines photography and printmaking and the results are one-of-a-kind. BENRIDO was established in 1887 in Kyoto, where they have been specializing in Collotype printing since 1905. With over a century of experience in the craft, they are one of the very few Collotype studios left, and the world’s only one that produces full-color photographic Collotype prints. They have won several awards and recognitions and have been responsible for many big art works and projects in Japan and abroad.  

Collection: National Museum of Oriental Art, Guimet, France