Artists who designed Japanese woodblock prints, above all the ukiyo-e pictures of the floating world made in the Edo period, and the twentieth century shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga print movements that revived and remade the craft. A printmaker belongs here when the cited article names ukiyo-e, shin-hanga, sosaku-hanga or the woodblock print as the artist's work. It excludes Western printmakers influenced by Japanese prints.
Japanese Woodblock Print Masters
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Kunisada (Wikipedia)
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He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.
Hokusai (Wikipedia)
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Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎; c. 31 October 1760-10 May 1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.
Hiroshige, Wikipedia
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Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797-12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Wikipedia: Utamaro
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He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.
Wikipedia: Suzuki Harunobu
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Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese: 鈴木 春信; c. 1725-8 July 1770) was a Japanese designer of woodblock print art in the ukiyo-e style.
Wikipedia: Sharaku
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Tōshūsai Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽; Japanese pronunciation: [toː.ɕɯꜜː.sai | ɕaꜜ.ɾa.kɯ], fl. 1794-1795) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Wikipedia)
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川 国芳, [ɯ̟ta̠ɡa̠β̞a̠ kɯ̟ɲ̟iꜜjo̞ɕi]; 1 January 1798-14 April 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Wikipedia)
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Yoshitoshi has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.
Wikipedia: Kawase Hasui
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He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by yōga (Western-style painting).
Wikipedia: Torii Kiyonaga
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Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese: 鳥居 清長; 1752, June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school.
Shikō Munakata (Wikipedia)
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Shikō Munakata (棟方 志功, Munakata Shikō; September 5, 1903, September 13, 1975) was a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan.
Nishikawa Sukenobu (Wikipedia)
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He was unusual for an ukiyo-e artist, as he was based in the imperial capital of Kyoto.
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