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Kazan WATANABE  -  1793-1841      A Tragedy

Kazan Watanabe

Kazan Watanabe 1793-1841

Kazan Watanabe was an Edo painter and printmaker and the son of a samurai. He committed suicide after having been sentenced to death by the Tokugawa administration and later pardoned to permanent house arrest. The artist had secretely studied Western painting, culture and language (Dutch) which had been forbidden during his lifetime.
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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