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Sumio KAWAKAMI  -  1895-1972      Sosaku Hanga

Sumio Kawakami

Sumio Kawakami 1895-1972

Sumio Kawakami was a teacher for English and a self-taught Sosaku Hanga artist. He was a modest man and considered himself an amateur printmaker. Today the print works of Sumio Kawakami are to be found in important museum collections. And a complete museum in Kanuma of Tochigi Prefecture in Japan is devoted exclusively to his woodblocks.
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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