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Insho DOMOTO  -  1891-1975      Order for Cultural Merit

Insho Domoto

Insho Domoto 1891-1975

Insho Domoto was born in Kyoto. He graduated from the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting in 1921. He contributed regularly to the official, juried Teiten exhibitions and won several prizes. After the end of the Pacific War his reputation spread to an International audience with exhibitions in Italy, France and the USA. In 1961 he was awarded with the Order for Cultural Merit.
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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