Hiroshima Shintaro : Ship at Night

Artist: Hiroshima Shintaro (1889-1951)
Title:  Ship at Night

Ship at Night.  An early sosaku-hanga work of the Taisho era with a fascinating European flair. Hiroshima Shintaro was born in Tokushima City in 1889. He graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and majored in nihonga, Japanese style painting. While a student he also studied western-style painting at the Hakuba-kai Institute.　He began creating moku-hanga prints in 1914 and established The Japan Hanga Club with Hasegawa Kiyoshi and Nagase Yoshiro. He was a member of Nihon Sosaku-hanga Kyokai and Nihon Hanga Kyokai from 1933. After 1920 he took the artist's name of Kôho and in later years he concentrated on painting. His printed works are quite scarce.

Date: 1916

Signed:  Artist's seal

Literature: See Merritt and Yamada "Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975", page 36.

SKU: HIS001