Tsuchiya koitsu biography meaning

Tsuchiya Koitsu (born Koichi) was a Meiji-Showa period shin hanga artist born in 1879 in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka Prefecture. At the age of fifteen, Tsuchiya moved to Tokyo to study under Matsuzaki, a woodblock carver for the prominent Meiji print artist Kobayashi Kiyochika.

Tsuchiya koitsu biography meaning in english

After publishing a series of prints during the Sino-Japanese (1894–1895), Tsuchiya became a pupil of Kiyochika and served as a household member for the next nineteen years. 

After Kiyochika passed away in 1915, Koitsu worked as a lithographer for the next sixteen years until meeting publisher Watanabe Shozaburo at a memorial exhibition in 1931.

The two agreed on a mutual collaboration, and the following year Tsuchiya designed a landscape series published by Watanabe, Kawaguchi, and Doi. His prints, like those of Kiyochika, are characterized by their dramatic use of light, seen in Cherry Blossom Viewing in the Evening at Gion (c.

1931). Tsuchiya's masterful manipulation of light, reflecte