Shoichi Kitamura

Shoichi Kitamura (北村昭一, born 1947) is a Japanese woodblock print artist who creates landscape compositions using traditional mokuhanga techniques. His prints depict scenes from the Japanese countryside — mountains, valleys, rivers, and traditional villages — rendered with the quiet sensitivity and atmospheric awareness that characterize the best work in the Japanese landscape print tradition. Kitamura is a dedicated practitioner whose work reflects a sustained commitment to mokuhanga and the Japanese landscape as artistic subject. His prints are available through Japanese galleries and at print exhibitions.

Shoichi Kitamura was active born in 1947. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga and Traditional Mokuhanga movements.

Shoichi Kitamura's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga and Traditional Mokuhanga traditions 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. Traditional Mokuhanga: Traditional mokuhanga (木版画) is the family of Japanese water-based woodblock printing techniques whose lineage stretches from the eighth century to the present and which underlies, in turn, the Buddhist printed text, the multi-colored Edo ukiyo-e print, the early-twentieth-century shin-hanga revival, and the international contemporary mokuhanga community of the twenty-first century.