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Goro TSURUTA  -  1890-1969      Insider Tip

Goro Tsuruta was born in Tokyo. He studied art and later worked at an advertising company. Until 1920 he travelled and worked in Korea and Manchuria. He designed landscape and bijin prints in the 1920s that were published by Kato Junji and Sakai Kawaguchi.
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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