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KAWANISHI HIDE (1894
-1965) |
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Born in Kobe in 1894.
Fascinated with the works by Yamamoto Kanae and Takehisa |
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Yumeji, he learnd by
himself the art of woodbock printing. He worked in the post |
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office near his home
and in 1922 became postmaster. His work was first exhibited |
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in the 5th Exhibition
of the Sosaku-hanga Association in 1923. |
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Using limited number
of bright colors, he devised a style of his own that matches |
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and heightens the effects
of the modern and exotic port city of Kobe. He won the |
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fame of 'magician of
colors'. |
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.KOIZUMI KISHIO (1893-1945) |
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1893 |
.Born in Shizuoka City. |
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1907 |
He moved to Tokyo at
the age of 15, learned watercolor paintng under |
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Oshita Tojiro, and
later acquired the tchniques of woodblock printing, |
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which led him to learn
under Yamamoto Kanae. |
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1919 |
He became member of
The Association of Japanese Creative Prints. |
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1924 |
He published 'The Techniques
for Curving and Printing Woodblocks' (Shuncho-kai) |
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1937 |
He completed and published「One
hundred Views of Tokyo of the Showa Era」. |
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.KITAOKA FUMIO (1918 -2007 ) |
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1918 |
Kitaoka Fumio was born
in Tokyo in 1918. |
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1939 |
He learned woodblock
printing under Hiratsuka Un'ichi during his student |
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years in Tokyo School
of Fine Arts, and in the same year his work was |
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first admitted for
the 8th Exhibition of Japan Hanga Association. |
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1942 |
He joined the 'Kitsutsuki-kai'
group led by Hiratsuka and in 1943 became |
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member of the Hanga
Association. |
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1944 |
He joined the 'Ichimoku-kai'
group whose leader was Onchi Koshiro. |
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1955 |
He went to France and
met Hasegawa Kiyoshi, who became his third great |
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teacher. |
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1964-6 |
During the 1964-65
period, he taught woodblock printing at Minneapolis |
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School of Art and at
New York Brat Graphic Art Center as a Fulbright |
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exchange professor. |
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2007 |
He passed away on April
22 at the age of 89. |
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INAGAKI TOMOO (1902-1980) |
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Born in Tokyo in 1902.
In1923 he started to contribute his woodblock works for the |
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magazine 'Poems and
Prints'. This challenge acquainted him with Onchi Koshiro and |
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enabled him to learn
a great deal from from this giant in hanga. His work was first |
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exhibited in the 6th
Exhibition of the Sosaku-hanga Association in 1924. |
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'Modern Japanese Prints'
by Oliver Statler 1957, the first book to introduce |
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Sosaku-hanga on the
international scale, aroused the worldwide interest in this |
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genre of art. Inagaki's 'Cat making
up' was selected to decorate the front cover, |
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which helped to bring him international
fame. |
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