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Asaji KOBAYASHI  -  1898-1939      Medical Doctor and Artist

Asaji Kobayashi

Asaji Kobayashi 1898-1939
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Asaji Kobayashi graduated in 1921 from Kanazawa Medical School. In the 1920s and 1930s he joined and exhibited with sosaku hanga groups while practicing as an eye doctor. The artist committed suicide in 1939.
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Notes: also Tomoji Kobayashi

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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