Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪, Kasamatsu Shirō, 11 January 1898, Tokyo – 14 June 1991) was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin-Hanga and Sōsaku-Hanga styles of woodblock printing.

Kasamatsu was born in Tokyo in 1898 and apprenticed at the age of 13 to Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878–1973), a traditional master of Bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women. Kasamatsu however took an interest in landscape and was given the pseudonym Shiro by his teacher, which he used as a signature mark in his prints.^[2] Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shōzaburō Watanabe from 1919. Almost all the woodblocks were destroyed in a fire in Watanabe's print shop following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s^[3]. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960^[4]. He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sōsaku-Hanga style. He produced nearly 80 Sōsaku-Hanga prints between 1955 and 1965.^[5][6]

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  The edge of Shinobazu pond during a foggy evening, 1932
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  The Large Lantern in the Kannon Temple in Asakusa, woodblock print, 1934
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  The hot springs of Shuzenji. Shuzenji onsen, 1937

References

External links

• The catalogue raisonné for Shiro Kasamatsu
• The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints
• Print collection at ukiyo-e.org

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