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Shiro Kasamatsu 1898-1992

Shiro Kasamatsu - Biography
Deer in the Morning
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This page provides a list of major artists who designed or contributed to woodblock prints in shin hanga style in the first half of the twentieth century. The shin hanga activities were mostly centered in Tokyo, encouraged by the woodblock print publisher Shozaburo Watanabe. But also Kyoto and to a lesser degree Osaka were active in the shin hanga art movement.

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The Shin Hanga Printmaking Movement

Around 1910 a renaissance of the old Japanese tradition of making woodblock prints was initiated by a print publisher with the name of Shozaburo Watanabe. The central idea of shin hanga ("new prints"), as the new movement was called, was to revive the old tradition of making woodblock prints in a teamwork of artists, skilled carvers and printers and a publisher who was responsible for the commercial success.

Shin Hanga lasted roughly until the year of Watanabe's death in 1962 and was a very successful art movement under commercial aspects. The success continues until our days among collectors and art friends and with fresh imopressions of shin hanga prints from the original blocks.

Apart from the Japanese artists in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, there were also several Western artists who lived in Japan and created woodblock prints in shin hanga style - most of them worked for Watanabe. Only Paul Jacoulet published himself.

Dieter Wanczura
(June 2009)

Watanabe Circle and Artists in Tokyo

Hasui Kawase 1883-1957

Kawase Hasui Biography
Senjo Cliff, Towada Lake
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• Eijiro KOBAYASHI - active 1930's.
• Eisho NARAZAKI - 1864-1936.
• Gakusui IDE - 1899-1992.
• Gesso YOSHIMOTO - 1881-1936.
• Gyokusei TSUKIOKA - born 1908.
• Hakuho HIRANO - 1879-1957.
• Hasui KAWASE - 1883-1957.
• Hiroaki TAKAHASHI - 1871-1945, also Shotei Takahashi.
• Koho SHODA - 1871?-1946?.
• Koitsu ISHIWATA - 1897-1987.
• Koitsu TSUCHIYA - 1870-1949.
• Konen UEHARA - 1878-1940.
• Kazuma ODA - 1881-1956.
• Kiyoshi KOBAYAKAWA - 1897-1948.
• Kokan BANNAI - born 1900.
• Koson OHARA - 1877-1945.
• Kotondo TORII - 1900-1976.
• Masamitsu OTA - 1892-1975.
• Sengai IGAWA - 1876-1961.
• Sentaro IWATA - 1901-1974.
• Shinsui ITO - 1898-1972.
• Shiro KASAMATSU - 1898-1992, worked later for Kyoto publisher and indenpendent.
• Shuho YAMAKAWA - 1898-1944.
• Shuko NAKAYAMA - active in 1920s.
• Shunsen NATORI - 1886-1960.
• Soseki KOMORI - active 1920s-1930s.
• Sozan ITO - 1884-?.
• Tadamasa UENO - 1904-1970.
• Takashi ITO - 1894-1982.
• Tatsumi SHIMURA - 1907-1980.
• Toraji ISHIKAWA - 1875-1964.
• Toyonari YAMAMURA - 1885-1942.
• Yoshimune ARAI - 1873-1945.
• Yuhan ITO - 1882-1951.

Shin Hanga Artists from Kyoto

Kanpo Yoshikawa 1894-1979

Kyoto Printmakers
Beauty Hinazo
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• Bakusen TSUCHIDA - 1887-1936.
• Insho DOMOTO - 1891-1975.
• Kanpo YOSHIKAWA - 1894-1979.
• Koei HASHIMOTO - 1893 - ?.
• Kokyo TANIGUCHI - 1864-1915.
• Suizan MIKI - 1887-1957.
• Sadanobu III HASEGAWA - 1881-1963.
• Takeji ASANO - 1900-1999.
• Tomikichiro TOKURIKI - 1902-1999, also active in sosaku hanga..
• Yoshimitsu NOMURA - 20th century.

Shin Hanga Artists from Osaka

Tsunetomi Kitano 1880-1947

Tsunetomi Kitano - Biography
Heroine Umekawa
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• Tomiya ODA - 1896-?.
• Tsunetomi KITANO - 1880-1947.
• Seien SHIMA - 1892-1970.

The Independents

Hiroshi Yoshida 1876-1950

Hiroshi Yoshida - Biography
Mt. Fuji From Funatsu
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• Goyo HASHIGUCHI - 1880-1921, made one design for Watanabe.
• Hiroshi YOSHIDA - 1876-1950, made several designs for Watanabe.
• Toshi YOSHIDA - 1911-1995.

Westerners in Japan

Charles William Bartlett 1860-1940

Charles WIlliam Bartlett - Biography
Kyoto
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• Charles William BARTLETT - 1860-1940.
• Cyrus BALDRIDGE - 1889-1975.
• Elizabeth KEITH - 1887-1956.
• Fritz CAPELARI - 1884-1950.
• Lilian May MILLER - 1895-1943.
• Paul JACOULET - 1902-1960.

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