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Sotaro TAKANAMI  -  born 1949      

Sotaro Takanami was born in Tokyo. He studied under Takuya Nakamoto while he studied oil painting in Tama Art College. He studied art in Europa, Egypt in 1977. Solo exhibition at Form Annex in Osaka, 1981. Hanga album, "Nature" by France Collection, 1987. His works are hand painted over the black and white woodblock prints.
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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