Biography
Naomichi Hino (born 1955, Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker working principally in intaglio — etching, drypoint, and aquatint — and based in Saitama Prefecture. His selection in the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 with 'Shadow of Summer,' a large 65 × 51 cm etching combining drypoint and aquatint, places him within the active community of senior intaglio printmakers circulating through Tokyo-area exhibition channels in the mid-2020s.
Hino received his foundational training at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, one of the principal Japanese institutions for printmaking pedagogy and a feeder for the post-1970s contemporary print scene. The Musashino lineage is particularly strong in intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen, and Hino's chosen technical channel — copper-plate etching with drypoint and aquatint additions — is consistent with the studio practice taught there.
Beyond his Musashino training, Hino has worked with multiple senior teachers across the Japanese intaglio scene, including Yosuke Imai, Tomiyuki Sakuda, Shomasyu Mizutani, and Taisuke Yuki. This pattern of post-degree mentorship through workshops and senior-artist studios is characteristic of Japanese print-craft transmission, where formal degree training is followed by years of technical refinement under established practitioners. Hino has also studied at Bunboudo and the print workshop TYPS, two Tokyo-area studios that operate as both training environments and shared editioning facilities.
The technical combination on display in 'Shadow of Summer' — etching as the structural drawn line, drypoint for tonal richness in the shadows, aquatint for tonal modeling — is the standard tonal-intaglio palette of late twentieth-century Japanese printmaking. The 65 × 51 cm sheet size is a substantial intaglio plate, requiring a large press bed and indicating either workshop access (Bunboudo, TYPS) or a substantial private studio.
Hino is one of a sizable cohort of senior Japanese intaglio printmakers who circulate primarily through the College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ) Print Show — the principal annual juried showcase of contemporary Japanese print, founded in 1956. CWAJ selection is competitive, and the 68th edition in 2025 included Hino's 'Shadow of Summer' as Print No. 030 in the catalog. The CWAJ Online Gallery — `cwaj-gallery.jp` — is the principal English-language documentation channel for working Japanese printmakers of his generation.
Further biographical detail beyond the CWAJ Print Show entry — exhibition history outside CWAJ, museum holdings, gallery representation — is not currently surfaced through the public-facing English-language channels. The Japan Print Association membership listing and Saitama-area exhibition records would be the next research targets for extending this bio.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1955
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Summer
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Naomichi Hino (born 1955, Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese printmaker working principally in intaglio — etching, drypoint, and aquatint — and based in Saitama Prefecture. His selection in the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 with 'Shadow of Summer,' a large 65 × 51 cm etching combining drypoint and aquatint, places him within the active community of senior intaglio printmakers circulating through Tokyo-area exhibition channels in the mid-2020s.
Naomichi Hino was active born in 1955. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Naomichi Hino's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Naomichi Hino's prints frequently feature summer.