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Tsunetomi KITANO  -  1880-1947      Bijin Prints

Tsunetomi Kitano

Tsunetomi Kitano 1880-1947

Tsunetomi Kitano started as an apprentice woodblock carver. The skill he acquired as a carver was an excellent basis for the design and production of his brilliant print works. His teacher was Inano Toshitsune who had been a student of the famous print artist Yoshitoshi. Tsunetomi Kitano became the most important painter and printmaker of bijin prints - prints of beautiful women - in Osaka in the first half of the twentieth century. Two of his students should become famous printmaker themselves - Kotani Chigusa and Shima Seien.
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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