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Kazuhiro KATASE  -  born 1942      

Woodblock print artist, Kazuhiro Katase had many solo and group exhibitions all over the world including "Contemporary Japan Print" exhibition in Sweden, 1967, Denmark in 1984. He fell ill and became pararized in the right side of his body. He still continued his artistic work with only the left hand. He has been called, "The poet of the left hand".
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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