Mineo's Ray

This work of Kansetsu-ho Gyotaku is an example of level of fine art that the printmaking method attains at the hands of a master. Mineo Ryuka Yamamoto is just such a master.


Actively involved in the Nature Printing Society, Mineo has been responsible for introducing hundreds of people to the artform. Mineo is most famously know for his refinements to the Indirect, or Kensetsu-ho, method of Gyotaku. He operates a fish printing studio in Higashimatsuyama City, Japan. Between international trips to promote and offer instruction in Gyotaku, Mineo spends time expanding the known boundaries of the technique.

Brief Portfolio of My Work

Tarpon Head Study

This Tarpon, brought down in January by a cold front too far south into Florida, was frozen and shipped north. His donor card allowed him to inspected, documented , Gyotaku-ed, sketched and immortalized.

The head study above was rendered with stippled pen and ink, then colorized in Photoshop.

His death was not in vain.