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Seien SHIMA  -  1892-1970      

Seien Shima

Seien Shima 1892-1970

Shima Seien was born in Sakei with the given name Narie as the daughter of a Japanese painter. She had studied under Kitano Tsunetomi and Noda Kyuho. Shima Seien painted mainly bijin-ga - pictures of beautiful women - in a mixture of traditional Japanese and modern style. After world war II she moved to Osaka where she stayed and painted until the end of her life.
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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