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Japanese Prints - Info
The Wind, 1981
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The art of Shuzo Ikeda is very distinctive. Children or young women with large eyes holding a pet or flower - depicted in stylized images. That's what a typical woodblock print by Shuzo Ikeda looks like. Shuzo Ikeda's art is typical for the post-war economic booming years of circa 1960 until 1985.

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Shuzo Ikeda - a Real Moku Hanga Artist

Shuzo Ikeda was born in Akita prefecture. In 1945 he graduated from Tokyo Higher Normal School. After a few years of teaching the artist became a member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai and other Japanese artist associations and turned to woodblock printmaking ('moku hanga') as a professional full-time artist.

Shuzo uses the woodblock technique. He is especially good in integrating the texture of the woodblock grain into his images.

The Feelings of an Era

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Joichi Hoshi - Biography
Mother and Child, 1981
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The art style of Shuzo Ikeda represents in my view the spirit of the years of the late 1950s until early 1980s. It was the period of a prosperous post-war economy and of great cultural changes in the industrialized Western nations, in the way of life, music and fashion. In my view, Ikeda's images "breathe" this era pretty much. If you happen to belong to a generation that was born before 1950 maybe you may have the same feelings when looking at the artist's prints.

Gallery of Shuzo Ikeda Woodblock Prints

Here is a typical selection of art prints by Shuzo Ikeda. All images on display were taken from our archive of sold Japanese prints.

Dieter Wanczura
(August 2009)

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Haku Maki - Biography
White Béret, 1984
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Popular Moku Hanga
Girl and Caged Bird, 1978
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Japanese Prints in the 20th Century
Flower Girl
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Emiko Aida - Biography
Fireworks -2, 1962
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Kiyoshi Saito - Biography
Under the Tree, 1972
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Tadashi Nakayama - Biography
Stream and Waterfall, 1990
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Literature sources used for this Biography of Shuzo Ikeda

• Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, "Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975", published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X.

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