Basuke YAMADA  -  active late 19th C.-1930s      Impressionist

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Basuke Yamada was an impressionist, Western-style painter. He is known for landscape prints made in 1930s. They were carved by Takano Shichinosuke, printed by Ono Tomisaburo and published by Fusui Gabo. The artist signed his art works with "Yamada Baske". He worked at the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. He probably had settled in the US.
Catalog Basuke Yamada active late 19th C.-1930s - artelino

Beisai KUBOTA  -  1874 - 1938      

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Beisai Kubota was the son of Beisen Kubota. He started in Western style art, but soon he worked in the Japanese traditional style. During the Korean campaign, he served as a war-correspondent for a newspaper. After the war, he became a noted scenographer, costume and stage designer.
Catalog Beisai Kubota 1874 - 1938 - artelino

Beisaku (Baisaku) TAGUCHI  -  1864-1903      Japanese War Prints

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Beisaku Taguchi is known for prints from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95. He was born in a prosperous rice merchant's house in Tochigi prefecture. He went to Tokyo in 1873, studied with Nakamura Banzan, later with Kobayashi Kiyochika. Although he was a landscape painter, he did some caricatures and worked for "Dan Dan Chinbun" (a sort of Punch, or New-Yorker).
Catalog Beisaku (Baisaku) Taguchi 1864-1903 - artelino

Beisen KUBOTA  -  1852-1906      Meiji Artist

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Beisen Kubota was born in Kyoto. He studied under Suzuki Hyakunen, later in Kono Bairei's studio. He travelled in North America, Europe and China. After his return he established the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting together with Kono Bairei. During the Sino-Japanese war he worked as an illustrator.
Catalog Beisen Kubota 1852-1906 - artelino

Benji ASADA  -  1899-1984      Japanese Painter and Printmaker

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Benji Asada is a typical Kyoto painter and printmaker. He received his art training at Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting. Benji Asada was an honor student of Goun Nishimura. In 1920s and 1930s he was active with the Kyoto and Tokyo Sosaku Hanga artists. He contributed to different group series - "Creative Prints of Twelve Months in New Kyoto" and "100 Views of New Japan". His major activities were on paintings in Japanese style.
Catalog Benji Asada 1899-1984 - artelino

Bertha LUM  -  1869-1954      An American in Japan

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Bertha Lum was born in Iowa, USA. In 1903 she came to Japan on her honeymoon and discovered the charm of Japanese woodblock prints. On her second visit to Japan 4 years later she learned printmaking the Japanese way. Afterwards she was quite successful in the USA and Japan with her woodblock prints that represent a mixture of Japanese, Impressionism and Art Nouveau style.
Catalog Bertha Lum 1869-1954 - artelino

Biho HIROSE  -  active ca. 1900-1910      

Helen Merritt mentions Biho (Yoshikuni) as designer of Russo-Japanese war prints which were published by Matsuki Heikichi in 1904.
Catalog Biho Hirose active ca. 1900-1910 - artelino

Biho TAKAHASHI  -  1873-?      Kacho-e

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Not much is known about Biho Takahashi except for his birth date of 1873. He made many striking designs of "kacho-ga" during 1900 - 1930s. Most of them have been offered from the famed Robert O. Miller Collection.
Catalog Biho Takahashi 1873-? - artelino

Bokusen SHIMADA  -  1868 - 1943      

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Shimada Bokusen was the son and a pupil of Maruyama school painter Shimada Sekkoku. He studied under hashimoto Gaho. A member of the Nihon Bijutsuin. A committee member of the Teiten in 1925, He received the Imperial Art Academy Prize in 1942. He specialized in portraits of historical figures, working in a revived yamato-e style.
Catalog Bokusen Shimada 1868 - 1943 - artelino

Brian WILLIAMS  -  born 1950      From Peru to Japan

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Brian Williams was born and raised in Peru. At age 16 he came to California. In 1972 he moved to Japan. Since then he became a well-established artist in Japan and outside the country. Like the Hiroshi family he likes to travel and hike in the mountains. He works in different printing techniques and in watercolors. Favored subjects are landscapes and farmhouse scenes from rural Japan. His art works are in the collections of the British Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Portland Art Institute and other well-known museums around the globe.
Catalog Brian Williams born 1950 - artelino

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