was a Japanese print publisher and the driving force behind one of the woodblock printmaking movements known as ''

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'' ("new prints").

Biography

He started his career working for the export company of , which gave him an opportunity to learn about exporting art prints. In 1908, Watanabe married Chiyo, a daughter of the woodblock carver Chikamatsu. Watanabe employed highly skilled carvers and printers, and commissioned artists to design prints that combined traditional Japanese techniques with elements of contemporary Western painting, such as perspective and shadows. Watanabe coined the term ''shin-hanga'' in 1915 to describe such prints.

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are among the artists whose works he published. Much of his company's stockpile of both prints and their original printing-blocks was destroyed in the

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of 1923. In the following years, new versions of many of these prints were created, using re-carved blocks; typically, the re-issued "post-quake" prints included changes and revisions in the designs. Watanabe exported most of his ''shin-hanga'' prints to the United States and Europe due to a lack of Japanese interest. After the close of World War II, his heirs continued the business, which still operates. Watanabe designed two prints himself under the name "Kako": ''Sunset Glow at West Park in Fukuoka'' and ''Lake Kawaguchi''.Rijksmuseum
/ref> File:Avondgloed in het Nishi park in Fukuoka Fukuoka nishi koen no yusho (titel op object), RP-P-1994-1.jpg, ''Sunset Glow at West Park in Fukuoka'', 1936 File:Het meer Kawaguchi Kawaguchiko (titel op object), RP-P-1994-2.jpg, ''Lake Kawaguchi'', 1937

References

* Machida Shiritsu Kokusai Hanga Bijutsukan, ''Taishō jojō shinhanga no bi ten, Watanabe Shōzaburō to shinhanga undō'', Tokyo, Machida-shi, Machida Shiritsu, Kokusai Hanga Bijutsukan, 1989. * Miles, Richard and Jennifer Saville, ''A Printmaker in Paradise, The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett, with a catalogue raisonné of etchings and color woodblock prints'', Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001

Footnotes

External links

Biography and further information
The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints
S. Watanabe Color Print Co.
Online Shop (Japanese)
Catalogue of Wood-Cut Colour Prints of S. Watanabe, 1936
{{DEFAULTSORT:Watanabe, Shozaburo 1885 births 1962 deaths Japanese editors Japanese publishers (people) Japanese art Japanese printmakers