Tatsuo Kawashima

Tatsuo Kawashima (川島達雄, born 1940) is a Japanese woodblock print artist who creates landscape compositions using traditional mokuhanga techniques. His prints depict the Japanese countryside, mountains, and coastal scenes, rendered with the atmospheric sensitivity that water-based woodblock printing encourages. Kawashima is a dedicated practitioner of the mokuhanga tradition whose work reflects a lifelong engagement with the Japanese landscape. His prints are available through Japanese galleries.

Tatsuo Kawashima was active born in 1940. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.

Tatsuo Kawashima'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.

Tatsuo Kawashima's prints frequently feature spring, winter, landscapes, village scenes, summer, mountains.

Original prints by Tatsuo Kawashima can be found in collections including Art Institute of Chicago, Japanese Art Open Database, wbp, ukiyo-e.org.

Tatsuo Kawashima is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.