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Chigusa KOTANI (YOSHIOKA)  -  1889-1947      

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Chigusa Kotani (Yoshioka) 1889-1947

This female artist is also known by the name Yoshioka or Kitani Chigusa and Kitane Chitane. She was born in Osaka with the given name of Eiko. Kotani Chigusa had studied with Tsunetomi Kitano, Ikeda Shoen and Kikuchi Keigetsu. Her favorite subjects were images of women. Later she took her subjects from the Japanese theater.
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Notes: also Chigusa Kitani or Chitane Kitano, Yoshioka

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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