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Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪, Kasamatsu Shirō, 11 January 1898, Tokyo – 14 June 1991) was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin-Hanga and Sōsaku-Hanga styles of woodblock printing.
Kasamatsu was born in Tokyo in 1898 and apprenticed at the age of 13 to Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878–1973), a traditional master of Bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women. Kasamatsu however took an interest in landscape and was given the pseudonym Shiro by his teacher, which he used as a signature mark in his prints.[2] Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shōzaburō Watanabe from 1919. Almost all the woodblocks were destroyed in a fire in Watanabe's print shop following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s.[3] Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960.[4] He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sōsaku-Hanga style. He produced nearly 80 Sōsaku-Hanga prints between 1955 and 1965.[5][6]
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The edge of Shinobazu pond during a foggy evening, 1932
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The Large Lantern in the Kannon Temple in Asakusa, woodblock print, 1934
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The hot springs of Shuzenji. Shuzenji onsen, 1937
References
- ^ https://shotei.com/articles/bobmuller/bobmuller.htm
- ^ Blair, Dorothy (1997). Modern Japanese prints: printed from a photographic reproduction of two exhibition catalogues of modern Japanese prints. Toledo Museum of Art.
- ^ https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/?wpf_filter_publisher=watanabe-shozaburo
- ^ https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/?wpf_filter_publisher=unsodo
- ^ Merrit, Helen; Yamada, Nanako (1995). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 54–55.
- ^ https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/?wpf_filter_publisher=self-published
External links
- The catalogue raisonné for Shiro Kasamatsu
- The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints
- Print collection at ukiyo-e.org