Kawashima Tatsuo (1939- )

Cataloged under the artist's name and birth year, this [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print is one of Tatsuo Kawashima's works whose specific subject has not been recorded with a descriptive title in available databases. Born in 1939, Kawashima belongs to the postwar generation of Japanese printmakers who inherited both the traditional landscape conventions of [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) and the more experimental approaches of the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) movement. His known output focuses predominantly on views of Kyoto and its surrounding countryside across all four seasons. Any uncataloged work by Kawashima would likely depict a landscape subject in the Kyoto region, rendered in the layered color woodblock technique that gives his prints their characteristic richness of tone and atmosphere. The absence of a descriptive title may reflect incomplete cataloging rather than the artist's intention.