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Saburo OTA  -  1884-1969      

Ota Saburo was born in Aichi prefecture. He had studied Western-style painting with Kuroda Seiki and traditional Japanese-style painting with Tarazaki Kogyo. Ora Saburo created woodblock prints and lithographs mainly during the first two decades of the twentieth century. After world war II he bacame head of Aichi Prefectural Museum.
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Notes: also Yanazo Kimishima

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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