Canadian artist wins top prize of 1,000,000 yen in Essay Contest
David Bull, a citizen of Canada and Britain, received 1,000,000 yen, the top award, for his winning essay in the fourth annual "Save the Earth" contest on Saturday at the Yomiuri Shimbun headquarters in Tokyo.
In his essay, "The Neighbourhood We All Share," Bull stressed the importance of broadening the public's environmental awareness from the local neighbourhood level to a global scale. The 43-year-old woodblock artist lives in Hamura Tokyo.
Bull's essay won the Environment Agency Director General's Prize. The contest was sponsored by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
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Japan and Me
"In 1775 an Edo bookshop published a series of portraits of the Hyakunin Isshu poets with illustrations by Katsukawa Shunsho, who was the leading designer of his day, just before Utamaro. We do not know if the book sold well or not, but few copies have survived and the book is extremely rare." (1989)
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Carving a Career From an Ancient Japanese Craft
David Bull, a 41-year-old Canadian university
dropout born in England who used to program computers and play the
flute on the street, anticipates one day finding himself revered as a
master practicioner of an ancient Japanese craft. But it took him 35
years to hit upon that uncommon ambition. (1993)
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David Bull, Woodblock Printmaker
When I arrive at David Bull's home in Ome in Tokyo's western suburb on a cold but sunny morning in late March, he is checking a huge delivery of kiri wood boxes from China. But this time he is not quite satisfied ... (2007)
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