Yamakawa Shūhō, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yamakawa Shūhō

Japanese painter and printmaker (1898-1944)

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1898

Place of Birth: Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1944

Profession: printmaker, Japanese-style painter

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yamakawa Shuho ???? (1898 - 1944) was a Japanese painter active in the Taisho and Showa 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 Shuho (1874-1944), gave him the name Yamakawa Shuho.
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 Shozaburo Watanabe.
Yamakawa Shuho died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944.The Art Institute of Chicago and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding paintings by Yamakawa Shuho.