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Tsuruzo ISHII  -  1887-1973      Member of Imperial Art Academy

Tsuruzo Ishii

Tsuruzo Ishii 1887-1973

Tsuruzo Ishii was the younger brother of the artist Ishii Hakutei. He had graduated from Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1910. The artist was active in the sosaku hanga artist associations but exhibited also at the official, government-sponsored art exhibitions like Bunten and Teiten. With Yamamoto Kanae, the "grandfather" of the sosaku hanga movement, he participated in the somewhat obscure "children's free art movement" and "farmers art movement". These were the favorite projects of Yamamoto Kanae after he had been "infected" with the ideas of communism during a stay in Moscow. These projects soon failed. Tsuruzo Ishii made a normal career in government-sponsored institutions and became professor at Tokyo School of Fine Arts and member of the Imperial Art Academy.
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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