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Yoshimitsu NOMURA  -  1870 - 1958      Shin Hanga from Kyoto

Yoshimitsu Nomura

Yoshimitsu Nomura 1870 - 1958

Nomura Yoshimitsu studied art under Yoshikuni Nomura in Osaka. He later studied the western style art under Bigo and painted the theater backdrops such as "Kamogawa Odori". Yoshimitsu belonged to the Kyoto circle of Shin Hanga artists who worked for the publisher Sato Shotaro. He depicted the popular theme with light, swift touch. Nomura Yoshimitsu took part in the famous Toledo exhibition in Ohio in 1936.
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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