Kotozuka Eiichi

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Kotozuka Eiichi ¿¿ ¿¿ (1906-1979), born in Osaka, graduated from the Kyoto Kaiga Semmon Gakko (Technical School of Painting) in 1930. From 1932, he exhibited prints with Shun'yokai (Spring Principle Association), an artist's organization that exhibited Western-style art. He also exhibited with the government sponsored Teiten. He was a member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai (Japan Print Association) from 1938. In addition to print making, Kotozuka exhibited Japanese-style paintings with the artists' organization Seiryusha, which he helped found in 1929. He was also a co-founder of Koryokusha in 1948 with fellow artists Tokuriki Tomikichir¿ (1902-2000), Kamei T¿bei¿ (1901-1977) and Takahashi Tasabur¿ (1904-1977) which they set up to publish their creative prints (sosaku hanga). After WWII he created a number of designs for the publisher Uchida Publishing, including his most famous series Eight Snow Scenes of Kyoto.Other series created by the artist include Scenes from Four Historical Cities; Scenes from Shiga, Nara and Kyoto; and Four Scenes from Kyoto. He also participated in the design of the series Fifty Kinds of Flowers (Hana goj¿ dai no uchi) with Kamei T¿bei¿ and Tokuriki Tomikichir¿ and Twenty-Four Views In and Out of Kyoto with Kamei T¿bei

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Pages: 122, Paperback, Missys Clan