{"title":"Authors \u0026 Poets","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"okumura-yuzuru-signed-artist-proof-cafe-passionate-poet","title":"Okumura Yuzuru signed artist proof, Cafe 'Passionate Poet","description":"Cafe 'Passionate Poet\u003cdiv\u003eSigned Artist Proof\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eArtist: Okumura Yuzuru\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e19\" x 14 3\/8\" including margins as shown.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAIQAA\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_Y3BBE\" style='border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(10, 10, 10) !important;'\u003e\n\u003cspan data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_T286Pc\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003eThe image is a watercolor painting by Japanese artist \u003cspan data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_T286Pc\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003eYuzuru Okumura\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_T286Pc\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003e. The work, titled \"\u003cspan data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_T286Pc\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003eCafé 'Nesshina shijin'\u003c\/span\u003e\" which translates to \"Cafe 'Passionate Poet',\" depicts a European town square with half-timbered buildings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. One of the buildings has the name \"Edgar Poe Restaurant HOTEL\" on its facade.\u003cspan data-processed=\"true\" data-complete=\"true\" data-wiz-uids=\"nyvpWe_q,nyvpWe_r\" class=\"x_uJ19be x_notranslate\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sae=\"\" data-animation-atomic=\"\" class=\"x_vKEkVd\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;\"\u003e \u003cbutton data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiKq9-b2uCQAxVGg4kEHY-iI2MQye0OegQIAhAB\" data-wiz-attrbind=\"disabled=nyvpWe_q_C5gNJc;class=nyvpWe_q_UpSNec;\" class=\"x_rBl3me\" aria-label=\"View related links\" data-icl-uuid=\"5c527726-a1f3-4df4-8ca0-b58bb76b037d\" data-amic=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; font: inherit; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: 10px; height: 20px; width: 20px; outline: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"x_wiMplc x_ofC0Ud\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; display: inline-block;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAMQAA\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_Y3BBE\" style='border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(10, 10, 10) !important;'\u003eYuzuru Okumura is known for creating paintings of European towns and incorporating a theme of \"normalization,\" which promotes the idea of a town where everyone can live comfortably. Okumura often includes figures of people in wheelchairs or the elderly in the paintings to represent this concept.\u003cspan data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-wiz-uids=\"nyvpWe_u,nyvpWe_v\" class=\"x_uJ19be x_notranslate\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sae=\"\" data-animation-atomic=\"\" class=\"x_vKEkVd\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;\"\u003e \u003cbutton data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiKq9-b2uCQAxVGg4kEHY-iI2MQye0OegQIAxAB\" data-wiz-attrbind=\"disabled=nyvpWe_u_C5gNJc;class=nyvpWe_u_UpSNec;\" class=\"x_rBl3me\" aria-label=\"View related links\" data-icl-uuid=\"00f0c458-7180-4d7c-9364-e5c87a8ce2c6\" data-amic=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; font: inherit; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: 10px; height: 20px; width: 20px; outline: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"x_wiMplc x_ofC0Ud\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; display: inline-block;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-hveid=\"CAQQAA\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" class=\"x_Y3BBE\" style='border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(10, 10, 10) !important;'\u003eThe Japanese text on the painting translates to \"A passionate poet, with deep flavor\" or \"A deeply flavorful, passionate poet\".\u003cspan data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-wiz-uids=\"nyvpWe_y,nyvpWe_z\" class=\"x_uJ19be x_notranslate\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sae=\"\" data-animation-atomic=\"\" class=\"x_vKEkVd\" style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;\"\u003e \u003cbutton data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiKq9-b2uCQAxVGg4kEHY-iI2MQye0OegQIBBAB\" data-wiz-attrbind=\"disabled=nyvpWe_y_C5gNJc;class=nyvpWe_y_UpSNec;\" class=\"x_rBl3me\" aria-label=\"View related links\" data-icl-uuid=\"b13a4d17-90dc-4318-b0c5-d9e657335a8c\" data-amic=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; font: inherit; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: 10px; height: 20px; width: 20px; outline: 0px;\"\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNotable fact: This artist always includes one or more disabled characters.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom his Linked-In page: \u003cspan style='color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Fira Sans\", Ubuntu, Oxygen, \"Oxygen Sans\", Cantarell, \"Droid Sans\", \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Lucida Grande\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'\u003eI was born in 1961 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. My father loves Japanese painting. He teaches me the pleasure of painting and I loved to scribble when I was a child. I am a self-taught artist, and have never studied in formal art school. I studied law in university and started oil painting by myself at that time. I had my solo exhibition when I was 24. Since then, I held more than 30 solo-exhibitions at Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Shizuoka, Chiba and New York. At the age of 29, I stayed in England about 1 year as a volunteer for people with disabilities. I was attracted by the beautiful European landscape. Since then, I changed my style of painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr style='font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Fira Sans\", Ubuntu, Oxygen, \"Oxygen Sans\", Cantarell, \"Droid Sans\", \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Lucida Grande\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'\u003e\u003cspan style='border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Fira Sans\", Ubuntu, Oxygen, \"Oxygen Sans\", Cantarell, \"Droid Sans\", \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Lucida Grande\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);'\u003eIn my artworks, did you recognize there are elderly people, people with wheelchair and woman pushing a baby carriage? 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