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Gyokushu KUWAYAMA  -  1746-1799      

Kuwayama Gyokushu was born 1746 in the Wakayama Prefecture.He was a painter, art critic and theorist. His family descended from a tea master and samurai vassal of warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. By the time of Gyokushu's birth the Kuwayama family had given up Samurai status and become well-to-do shipping merchants.
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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