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Shintaro TAKEDA  -  1886-1957      Sosaku Hanga Artist

Shintaro Takeda was born in Nagano prefecture. He had studied art at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. From 1925 he became an active member of the Kyoto circle of Sosaku Hanga artists. In the 1920s he was active in the children's free art movement inititated by Kanae Yamamoto under the influence of socialist ideas, which he had picked up when he experienced the Russian revolution in Moscow on his way back from Europe to Japan. Takeda depicted often the familiar everyday subjects.
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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
  • Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
  • Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
  • Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
  • Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
  • Annual CWAJ catalogs