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TANINAKA YASUNORI （1897-1946
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Born in Sakurai City,
Nara Prefecture. When he read Nagase Yoshiro's |
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"To those who
make prints", he was deeply motivated to be a print artist |
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himself. HIs works
were exhibited at the exhibitions of Japan Creative |
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Print Association and
Japan Print Association and his original world ex- |
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pressed in those works
were admired and supported by many. Still more |
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works were published
in <White and Black> and <The Print Art>. He was |
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known for his eccentricities
and was starved to death in Tokyo soon after |
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the end of the Second
World War. |
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.TAKAHASHI TASABURO （1904-1977） |
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1904 |
Born in Kyoto . |
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1923 |
Graduated from Kyoto
City Art and Craft School and entered Kyoto |
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City Art College majoring
in painting. |
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1926 |
Graduated from the
college and then inspired by Nagase Yoshiro's |
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works, he earnestly
worked on making woodblick prints |
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1928 |
His woodblock print
was selected for the 9th Tei-Ten Exhibition. |
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1941 |
His Still Life was
exhibited at the 4th New Bun-Ten Exhibition. |
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The subject was one
on which he worked for long afterwards. |
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.KITAOKA FUMIO (1918 -2007 ) |
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1918 |
Kitaoka Fumio was born
in Tokyo in 1918. |
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1939 |
He learned woodblock
printing under Hiratsuka Un'ichi during his |
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student years in Tokyo
School of Fine Arts, and in the same year |
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his work was first
admitted for the 8th Exhibition of Japan Hanga |
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Association. |
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1942 |
He joined the 'Kitsutsuki-kai'
group led by Hiratsuka and in 1943 |
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became member of the
Hanga Association. |
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1944 |
He joined the 'Ichimoku-kai'
group whose leader was Onchi Koshiro. |
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1955 |
He went to France and
met Hasegawa Kiyoshi, who became his third |
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great teacher. |
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1964-6 |
During the 1964-65
period, he taught woodblock printing at |
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Minneapolis School
of Art and at New York Brat Graphic Art Center |
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as a Fulbright exchange
professor. |
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2007 |
He passed away on April
22 at the age of 89. |
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KAWANISHI HIDE (1894
-1965 ) |
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Born in Kobe in 1894. Fascinated
with the works by Yamamoto Kanae and |
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Takehisa Yumeji, Kawanishi
learnd by himself the art of woodblock printing. |
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He worked in the post
office near his home and in 1922 became postmaster. |
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In 1923. His work was
first exhibited in the 5th Exhibition of the Sosaku- |
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hanga Association.
Using limited number of bright colors, he devised a style |
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of his own that matches
and heightens the effects of the modern and exotic |
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port city of Kobe. He
won the fame of 'magician of colors'. |
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.KOIZUMI KISHIO (1893-1945 ) |
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1893 |
.Born in Shizuoka City. |
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1907 |
He moved to Tokyo at
the age of 15, learned watercolor paintng |
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under Oshita Tojiro,
and later acquired the tchniques of woodblock |
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printing, which led
him to learn under Yamamoto Kanae. |
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1919 |
He became member of
The Association of Japanese Creative Prints. |
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1924 |
He published 'The Techniques
for Curving and Printing Woodblocks' |
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(Shuncho-kai) |
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1937 |
He completed and published 'One
hundred Views of Tokyo of the |
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Showa Era'. |
