was a Japanese painter active in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, as well as a printmaker of the

Shin-hanga was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, that revitalized the traditional ''ukiyo-e'' art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). It maintained the traditional ''ukiyo-e'' co ...

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 was the art-name of a Nihonga artist and the leading master of the ''bijin-ga'' genre in the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His legal name was Kaburaki Ken'ichi. The artist himself used the reading "Kaburaki", but many Western (and some Japanese) sour ...

. 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 was a Japanese print publisher and the driving force behind one of the woodblock printmaking movements known as '' shin-hanga'' ("new prints"). Biography He started his career working for the export company of , which gave him an opportunity t ...

. Yamakawa died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944. The

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...

and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding paintings by Yamakawa Shūhō.Brown, Kendall H. and Sharon A. Minichiello, ''Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco'', Honolulu Academy of Arts、2002

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yamakawa, Shuho 20th-century Japanese painters Japanese printmakers 1898 births 1944 deaths