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| Gion in Kyoto (F) woodblock 20 3/4 x 15 inches 1961 |
Girl with Baby woodblock 9 1/2 x 14 inches |
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| Gion in Kyoto (F) woodblock 20 3/4 x 15 inches 1961 |
Girl with Baby woodblock 9 1/2 x 14 inches |
| Biography | |
| 1907 | Born in Fukushima |
| 1924 | Designing signs for store fronts |
| 1932 | Moved to Tokyo, attend Hongo Painting Institute and learn Western-style painting, and started woodblock prints making |
| 1937 | Only woodblock print making, and produced "winter in Aizu" series |
| 1943 | Met Onchi, became the member of Japanese Woodblock Association |
| 1945 | Group show with Un-ichi Hiratsuka and Hide Kawanishi, Tokyo |
| 1951 | First prize for Steady Gaze at the inaugural Sao Paolo Bienniale |
| 1956 | Visited the U.S An Art Reborn: Statler's, Modern Japanese Print |
| 1997 | Died |
| Collections | |
| Cincinnati Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco; New York Public Library; Art Institute of Chicago; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Kanagawa Prefectural Museum |