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.
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Hokusai
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Kawase Hasui
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Kitagawa Utamaro
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Nishikawa Sukenobu
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Shikō Munakata
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Suzuki Harunobu
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Torii Kiyonaga
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Toshusai Sharaku
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Utagawa Hiroshige
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Utagawa Kunisada
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Printmakers, Calligraphers and Graphic Artists
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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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