Hiroshi Nagai is a popular illustrator who has colored various scenes with posters and advertisements as well as records and CDs, such as the jacket for Eiichi Otaki's "A Long Vacation," a masterpiece of Japanese pop history. In particular, many of the works he created for the record jackets of numerous artists representing the "City Pop" genre that was popular in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s are still loved by many people today along with the music and have recently become popular overseas.
Now, his representative work "Time goes by..." has been completed as a woodcut print by the printers and carvers at the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints. Using traditional woodcut printing techniques, the prints fully express the charm of the artist, who has created a unique world view in simple and clean compositions.