Shūhō Yamakawa
ARTISTYamakawa Shūhō was a Japanese painter active in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, as well as a printmaker of the Shin-hanga movement. He was born in Kyoto with the name Yamakawa Yoshio. His first teacher, Ikegami Shūhō (1874-1944), gave him the name Yamakawa Shūhō. Yamakawa then went on to study with Kiyokata Kaburagi. He also worked as an illustrator in the 1930s. In the late 1920s, he started designing woodblocks prints of beautiful women, many of which were published by Shōzaburō Watanabe. Yamakawa died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Yamakawa Shūhō (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Other Japanese artists of the period:Shimizu Seifū 262Kawase Hasui 155Yoshida Hiroshi 88Hashiguchi Goyō 39Ōgata Gekkō 15Nakamura Tsune 10Kajita Hanko 10Morita Tsunetomo 6
Shūhō Yamakawa, wall art & digital downloads
1 works by Shūhō Yamakawa (Japanese, 1898–1944) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Yamakawa Shūhō was a Japanese painter active in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, as well as a printmaker of the Shin-hanga movement. He was born in Kyoto with the name Yamakawa Yoshio. His first teacher, Ikegami Shūhō (1874-1944), gave him the name Yamakawa Shūhō. Yamakawa then went on to study with Kiyokata Kaburagi. He also worked as an illustrator in the 1930s. In the late 1920s, he started designing woodblocks prints of beautiful women, many of which were published by Shōzaburō Watanabe. Yamakawa died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Shūhō Yamakawa's work on the site falls under Prints (1).
By movement, it's catalogued as Japanese (culture or style) (1).
Culture: Japanese (1).
By orientation: 1 portrait.
Other Japanese artists of the period
Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:
- Shimizu Seifū — 262 artworks
- Kawase Hasui — 155 artworks
- Yoshida Hiroshi — 88 artworks
- Hashiguchi Goyō — 39 artworks
- Ōgata Gekkō — 15 artworks
- Nakamura Tsune — 10 artworks
- Kajita Hanko — 10 artworks
- Morita Tsunetomo — 6 artworks
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