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Japanese printmakers

31 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Hasui KawaseEngraver · PrintsMay 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957 was a Japanese artist who was one of 20th century Japan's most important and prolific printmakers.
Hiroshi YoshidaEngraver · Prints
Hitoshi NakazatoEngraver · PrintsHitoshi Nakazato (1936 – 2010) was a Japanese-born American painter, printmaker, muralist, and educator.
Isoda KoryūsaiArtist · PaintingsIllustration — Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyō
Itō ShinsuiArtist · PaintingsShinsui Itō (Itō Shinsui; 4 February 1898 – 8 May 1972) was the pseudonym of a Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in Taishō- and Shōwa-period Japan.
Jōsaku MaedaEngraver · PrintsJōsaku Maeda (前田常作, Maeda Jōsaku, 14 July 1926 – 13 October 2007) was a Japanese painter and printmaker known for abstract paintings based on Buddhist mandala structures.
Judy OnggEngraver · Prints
Jun HatanakaEngraver · PrintsMarch 20, 1950 – June 13, 2012 was a Japanese manga artist and woodblock artist. Jun Hatanaka was born in Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Tsukiyo marked his debut as a professional manga artist…
Katsukawa ShunshōEngraver · PrintsIllustration — Kabuki actor, by Katsukawa Shunshō
Katsushika HokusaiEngraver · Prints
Kitaoka FumioEngraver · Prints1918 – April 23, 2007 was a Japanese artist. He was trained in oil painting, and later became interested in woodblock printing.
Kohno MichiseiIllustrator · Illustration
Masuo IkedaArtist · CeramicsFebruary 23, 1934 – March 8, 1997 was a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.
Nobuyuki ŌuraEngraver · PrintsNobuyuki Ōura (大浦信行, Ōura Nobuyuki, born 1949, Toyama) is a Japanese artist and filmmaker who has been referred to in English as Ohura Nobuyuki.
Reiko OkuyamaEngraver · Prints26 October 1936 – 6 May 2007, née, was a Japanese animator, notable for being one of the first female Japanese animators.
RosanjinDesigner · Modern design
Sadamasa MotonagaEngraver · PrintsSadamasa Motonaga (元永定正, Motonaga Sadamasa, born November, 26, 1922, in Iga Ueno, died October 3, 2011, in Takarazuka) was a Japanese visual artist and book illustrator, and a…
Sanzō WadaEngraver · PrintsSanzo Wada (和田三造, Wada Sanzō) was a Japanese painter and costume designer who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for his work on the jidaigeki film Gate of Hell (1953).
Sekino Jun'ichirōEngraver · PrintsIllustration — Artist's signature
Senpan MaekawaIllustrator · Illustration5 October 1888 – 17 November 1960 was a Japanese woodblock printer associated with the sosaku hanga "creative prints" movement.
SharakuEngraver · Prints1794–1795 was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known.
Shiba KōkanEngraver · PrintsShiba and Andō
Shibata ZeshinEngraver · Prints
Shigeo FukudaEngraver · Prints
Tadashige OnoEngraver · PrintsJanuary 19, 1909, Tokyo – October 17, 1990 was a Japanese woodblock print artist prominent in the sōsaku hanga movement in twentieth century Japan.
Takeo TakeiEngraver · Prints25 June 1894 – 7 February 1983 was a Japanese painter and puppet maker best known for his illustrations for children.
Toyohara KunichikaArtist · Paintings
Tsuguharu FoujitaEngraver · Prints27 November 1886 – 29 January 1968 was a Japanese-French painter. After studying Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern…
Utagawa KunisadaEngraver · PrintsIllustration — Woodblock print portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, at the age of 80 years, dated January 1865.
Utagawa YoshitsuyaEngraver · PrintsIllustration — Signatures of Utagawa Yoshitsuya, both reading “Ichieisai Yoshitsuya ga” (一英斎　芳艶　画)
Yōzō HamaguchiEngraver · PrintsYozo Hamaguchi (April 5, 1909 - December 25, 2000) was a Japanese copper printmaker who specialized in mezzotint and was responsible for its resurgence as a printmaking medium in the…

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