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Kazue YAMAGISHI  -  1891 - 1984      Sosaku Hanga

Kazue Yamagishi

Kazue Yamagishi 1891 - 1984

Kazue Yamagishi is a typical exponent of the sosaku hanga movement. He had a high reputation as an excellent carver and often was asked to do the woodblock carving for other artists, among them Kyokata Kaburagi, Koshiro Onchi, Hiroshi Yoshida and Paul Jacoulet. In the 1920s he had been assigned to a three-year study travel in Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Kazue Yamagishi was a founding member of the sosaku hanga artist association Nihon Hanga Kyokai.
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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