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TAGAWA KEN (1906 -1967
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1906 |
Born in Nagasaki.He
moved to live in Tokyo in 1926. |
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1926 |
When acquainted with
Onchi Koshiro, he was fascinated with hanga. |
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1928 |
He entered Kawabata
School of Art and around 1932 started to make hanga. |
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1933 |
He returned to his
hometown and, in 1934, formed the group 'Hanga |
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Nagasaki no Kai (Hanga
Group in Nagasaki)' |
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1940 |
He joined the Hanga
Association. |
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1941-42 |
During this period
he lived in Shanghai and established Shanghai Hanga |
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Association and Shanghai
Studio for Hanga Art. |
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1945 |
He returned to Japan
(actually landed on a small island off the coast of |
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Kyushu after drifting
for 16 days in the East China Sea). |
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He maintained long
friendship with the poets, Horiguchi Daigaku and |
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Kaneko Mitsuharu, and
illustrated Horiguchi's translation work, |
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'Collected Poems of
Guillaume Apollinaire' with woodblock prints. |
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Bibliography |
'Woodblock Prints of
Tagawa Ken - 12th Mansion at Higashi-yamate, |
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Nagasaki' Keishosha 1973 |
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.MAEDA TOHSHIRO (1904-1990 ) |
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.Born in Akashi City, Hyogo prefecture. On graduation
from the Commercial |
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.College of Kobe, he worked for the publicity department
of Matsuzakaya Store. |
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.While follwing his career of advertisement artist, he
tried making prints |
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.studying 'The Techniques of Print Making' written by
Hiratsuka. In 1939 he |
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.was awarded the Shun'yo-kai Prize for 'Bingata' and
other works. He became |
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.member of Shun'yo-kai the following year. |
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YAMAGUCHI SUSUMU (1897-1983
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1897 |
Yamaguchi was born
in Ina City, Nagano prefecture. |
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1912 |
At the age of 15, he
made his first attempt in woodblock printing, |
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using his father's
worn out wooden clogs as the blocks. |
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1923 |
His work was first
exhibited in the 5th Exhibition of the Sosaku- |
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hanga Association. 'Soaked-wet
printing', the printing technique |
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of his own devising,
had influence even upon Onchi Koshiro. |
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Referrence |
'Modern Japanese Prints'
Oliver Statler Tuttle 1956(Bibliography) |
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'The Printed Works
of Yamaguchi Susumu' Keishosha 1979 |
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