Calendar 1976
Description
This 1976 calendar designed by Keisuke Serizawa is made up of twelve paper stencil prints packaged in a decorative cardboard folder with a stenciled label showing the year and Serizawa's "se" (せ) hexagonal seal. The stenciled prints and label pasted on the folder are done in Serizawa's katazome style perfected in the wake of WWII material shortages forcing him to look for alternatives to textiles to print his stencil dyed designs. Serizawa’s stencils were later named kataezome to reinforce the pictorial nature of his work. Serizawa must have taken delight each year in combining disparate design elements into a mass-produced cohesive calendar.
Folder containing the 12 prints
IHL Cat. #2647a
Label at bottom reads
北海道民芸家具 (Hokkaidō mingei kagu)
January 1976
IHL Cat. #2647b
February 1976
IHL Cat. #2647c
March 1976
IHL Cat. #2647d
April 1976
IHL Cat. #2647e
May 1976
IHL Cat. #2647f
June 1976
IHL Cat. #2647g
July 1976
IHL Cat. #2647h
August 1976
IHL Cat. #2647i
September 1976
IHL Cat. #2647j
October 1976
IHL Cat. #2647k
November 1976
IHL Cat. #2647l
December 1976
IHL Cat. #2647m
