Biography
Tsukasa Izuhara (born 1953, Kyoto) is a Japanese lithographer with a sustained practice based in Kyoto. His selection in the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 with 'Machine Blossoms' (機械の花), a 50 × 40 cm lithograph from 2019, places him within the established cohort of senior Japanese lithographic artists working through the Kansai region's distinctive print tradition.
Izuhara trained at Kyoto City University of the Arts (KCUA), a leading art university in the Kansai region whose printmaking program has been a significant generator of contemporary Japanese print since the 1960s, with a distinguished lithography stream in particular.
Izuhara's teacher was Hideo Yoshihara (1931-2007), one of the most internationally significant Japanese lithographers of the postwar generation. In the 1950s Yoshihara was associated with the Gutai group and, from 1955, with the Demokrato Artists Association -- two of the most important Japanese postwar avant-garde formations -- before becoming known above all for his lithography. His work entered major museum collections in Japan and abroad, and his teaching career at Kyoto City University of the Arts shaped successive generations of Kansai lithographers.
Izuhara's training under Yoshihara situates him within one of the most documented and influential teaching lineages in postwar Japanese lithography. The Yoshihara aesthetic -- abstract compositions with dense pigment and a strong graphic register -- informs Izuhara's mature work. The title 'Machine Blossoms' (機械の花, kikai no hana, literally 'flowers of the machine') suggests a hybrid imagery combining mechanical and organic forms, characteristic of the Kansai post-Yoshihara lithography vocabulary.
The 2019 dating of 'Machine Blossoms' indicates that the work in the 2025 CWAJ Print Show is a recent rather than historical print -- the print was completed six years before its CWAJ selection, well within the period of active CWAJ catalog inclusion. The 50 × 40 cm sheet size is a moderate lithographic plate. The CWAJ catalog assigned 'Machine Blossoms' Print No. 055 in the 68th edition.
Beyond the CWAJ Print Show entry, little further biographical detail about Izuhara -- his broader exhibition history, museum holdings, or gallery representation -- is currently surfaced through public-facing English-language channels. Kansai-area exhibition records and the Kyoto City University of the Arts alumni network would be the principal next-step research targets for extending this bio.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1953
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Abstract
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tsukasa Izuhara (born 1953, Kyoto) is a Japanese lithographer with a sustained practice based in Kyoto. His selection in the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 with 'Machine Blossoms' (機械の花), a 50 × 40 cm lithograph from 2019, places him within the established cohort of senior Japanese lithographic artists working through the Kansai region's distinctive print tradition.
Tsukasa Izuhara was active born in 1953. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Tsukasa Izuhara'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.
Tsukasa Izuhara's prints frequently feature abstract.