Shin-hanga prints have become increasingly popular in recent years, and this book focuses on landscape paintings by 12 artists.
Popular artists like Kawase Hasui and Yoshida Hiroshi, as well as great masters like Hashiguchi Goyo and Ito Shinsui,
and even artists like Kasamatsu Shiran and Tsuchiya Koitsu... This definitive edition comprehensively introduces the masterpieces of each artist!
Shin-hanga prints emerged during the Taisho and Showa periods, embracing new forms of artistic expression.
This book traces the unforgettable landscapes of artists who gathered around publishers in search of new art and demonstrated their talents in landscape painting.
[Table of Contents]
◎Foreword: To Enjoy and Deeply Appreciate Shin-hanga Prints
Kyoji Takizawa
◎Chapter 1: Kawase Hasui—Searching for Landscapes to Become Woodblock Prints
Kawase Hasui
◎Chapter 2: Landscape Expressions on the Eve of Shin-hanga—From Ukiyo-e Prints to New Prints
Takahashi Shōtei
◎Chapter 3: Artists and Landscape Paintings in the Early Days of Shin-hanga
Hashiguchi Goyo/Ito Shinsui
◎Chapter 4: Western-Style Painter Yoshida Hiroshi—A Look at Landscape
Yoshida Hiroshi
◎Chapter 5: Landscape Painters Between Tradition and Modernity
Kasamatsu Shirai/Tsuchiya Koitsu/Ishiwata Eitsu/Ito Takayuki
◎Chapter 6: Foreign Artists Fascinated by Shin-hanga Production
Charles Bartlett/Elizabeth Keith/Noel Nouette
◎Column
Watanabe Shozaburo—The Publisher Who Created the Shin-hanga Movement
Kyoji Takizawa
Shin-hanga Subjects Kyoji Takizawa
Seikata School Artists and Shinhanga by Kyoji Takizawa
Contemporary Popularity and Appreciation in America by Shuko Koyama
Attracting Inbound Tourism and Shinhanga by Shuko Koyama
The Techniques of Shinhanga: Carving and Printing: On the Watanabe Prints and Private Prints by Hiroshi Yoshida by Mitsuyo Furuya
