Kimura Yoshiharu
木村吉晴
Japan
Biography
Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴) is a Japanese printmaker about whom very little biographical information has been published in English or Japanese reference sources. No birth year, death year, or training lineage has been established in the standard catalogues of modern Japanese prints.
Artworks attributed to Kimura Yoshiharu appear in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums and on the ukiyo-e.org database. The surviving prints suggest a working period in the mid-twentieth century and a competent handling of woodblock technique, though without documentation it is not possible to place him within a specific movement or school. His name does not appear in the membership rolls of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai or in the major exhibition catalogues of either the shin-hanga or sosaku-hanga movements that have been digitized to date.
Until further archival research surfaces biographical details, Kimura Yoshiharu remains one of the many skilled but undocumented printmakers whose work survives in scattered institutional and private collections without a recoverable life story.
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Kimura Yoshiharu (木村吉晴) is a Japanese printmaker about whom very little biographical information has been published in English or Japanese reference sources. No birth year, death year, or training lineage has been established in the standard catalogues of modern Japanese prints.
Kimura Yoshiharu's prints frequently feature birds & flowers, abstract, animals, night scenes, landscapes, seascapes.
Original prints by Kimura Yoshiharu can be found in collections including wbp, Japanese Art Open Database, Ohmi Gallery, ukiyo-e.org.
Kimura Yoshiharu is a contemporary Japanese printmaker with a substantial body of signed limited-edition woodblock prints. His work draws on traditional Japanese printmaking techniques applied to contemporary subjects. Most prints sell in the 00-,500 range through specialist galleries and print auctions. As an active contemporary artist, retail gallery pricing applies to current editions. An accessible entry point for collectors of contemporary Japanese woodblock prints.