Gihachiro Okuyama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gihachiro Okuyama

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1907

Place of Birth: Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1981

Profession: printmaker

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Gihachiro Okuyama (?? ???, Okuyama Gihachiro, February 17, 1907 – October 1, 1981) was a 20th-century Japanese commercial artist and woodblock printmaker.
He was a prolific artist of the shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga styles.
Okuyama is noted for his landscape prints, both in color and black-and-white, as well as his simple prints of scenes that interject elements of the modernization of Japan into an otherwise traditional view.