Kawada Kan

Kawada Kan (川田幹, 1927–1999) was a Japanese printmaker born in Tokyo who studied stencil techniques under the Living National Treasure Serizawa Keisuke at the Ochanomizu Bunka Gakuin Art Institute. He developed a distinctive approach using multiple stencils to create richly colored prints of Japanese temples, pagodas, and architectural streetscapes, with a master stencil in black providing bold structural outlines. In 1992 he received the Grand Prize at the prestigious Nitten Art Exhibition, the culmination of a career devoted to bridging the katazome stencil tradition with modern creative printmaking.

Kawada Kan was active from 1927 to 1999. They were associated with the Sōsaku-hanga movement.

Kawada Kan's work was shaped by the Sōsaku-hanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Sōsaku-hanga: The "creative prints" movement (c.

Original prints by Kawada Kan can be found in collections including ukiyo-e.org, robynbuntin, Japanese Art Open Database, wbp.