Taishō Era
大正時代
1912–1926
About the Taishō Era
The brief Taishō era witnessed the birth of two pivotal movements that would revitalize Japanese printmaking. Watanabe Shozaburo launched the shin-hanga (new prints) movement, collaborating with artists like Kawase Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida to produce exquisite landscape prints using traditional carver-printer-publisher teamwork. Simultaneously, the sosaku-hanga (creative prints) movement championed the artist as sole creator—designing, carving, and printing their own works—reflecting Taishō-era individualism and democratic ideals.
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Artistic movements active during the Taishō Era
Artists (265)
Artists active during the Taishō Era

Araki Kanpo
荒木寛畝
1831–1915

Mochizuki Gyokusen
望月玉泉
1834–1913
Tomioka Tessai
富岡鉄斎
1837–1924
Toyohara Chikanobu
豊原周延
1838–1912

Matsumoto Fūko
松本楓湖
1840–1923

Kawabata Gyokushō
川端玉章
1842–1913

Imao Keinen
今尾景年
1845–1924

Noguchi Shōhin
野口小蘋
1847–1917
Kobayashi Kiyochika
小林清親
1847–1915

Utagawa Kunisada III
三代目歌川国貞
1848–1920

Hasegawa Sadanobu II
二代目長谷川貞信
1848–1940

Andō Hiroshige IV
安藤広重四代
1849–1925

Suzuki Shōnen
鈴木松年
1849–1918

Honda Kinkichirō
本多錦吉郎
1850–1921
Takashima Hokkai
高島北海
1850–1931

Watanabe Seitei
渡辺省亭
1851–1918

Mishima Shōsō
三島蕉窓
1856–1928

Koyama Shōtarō
小山正太郎
1857–1916

Ogata Gekko
尾形月耕
1859–1920

Charles W. Bartlett
1860–1940

Suzuki Kason
鈴木華邨
1860–1919
Takeuchi Keishu
武内桂舟
1861–1942
Kikuchi Hōbun
菊池芳文
1862–1918

Tsutsui Toshimine
筒井年峰
1863–1934

Migita Toshihide
右田年英
1863–1925

Taniguchi Kōkyō
谷口香嶠
1864–1915

Kobori Tomone
小堀鞆音
1864–1931

Takeuchi Seihō
竹内栖鳳
1864–1942

Kamisaka Sekka
神坂雪佳
1866–1942

Nakamura Fusetsu
中村不折
1866–1943

Kuroda Seiki
黒田清輝
1866–1924

Maruyama Banka
丸山晩霞
1867–1942

Fujishima Takeji
藤島武二
1867–1943
Helen Hyde
1868–1913

Ogawa Usen
小川芋銭
1868–1938

Kawanabe Kyōsui
河鍋暁翠
1868–1935

Yamada Keichū
山田敬中
1868–1934

Yokoyama Taikan
横山大観
1868–1958

Tsukioka Kōgyo
月岡耕漁
1869–1927

Okakura Shūsui
岡倉秋水
1869–1950

Bertha Lum
1869–1954

Okada Saburōsuke
岡田三郎助
1869–1939

Tsuji Kakō
都路華香
1870–1931

Kajita Hanko
梶田半古
1870–1917

Tsuchiya Koitsu
土屋光逸
1870–1949

Yamamoto Shoun
山本昇雲
1870–1965

Koho Shoda
庄田耕峰
1871–1946

Yamamoto Shunkyo
山元春挙
1871–1933

Shōda Kōhō
庄田耕峰
1871–1946
Takahashi Shotei
高橋松亭
1871–1945

Araki Jippo
荒木十畝
1872–1944
Shimomura Kanzan
下村観山
1873–1930
Chigusa Sōun
千種掃雲
1873–1944

Yoshimune Arai
荒井芳宗
1873–1945

Kawai Gyokudō
川合玉堂
1873–1957

Komuro Suiun
小室翠雲
1874–1945

Kamoshita Chōko
鴨下晁湖
1874–1950

Watanabe Nobukazu
渡辺延一
1874–1944

Hiromitsu Nakazawa
中沢弘光
1874–1964

Wada Eisaku
和田英作
1874–1959

Mabel Royds
1874–1941

Kawakita Kahō
川北霞峰
1875–1940

Hamada Josen
浜田如洗
1875

Uemura Shoen
上村松園
1875–1949

Ishikawa Toraji
石川寅治
1875–1964

Kitazawa Rakuten
北澤楽天
1876–1955

Hisui Sugiura
杉浦非水
1876–1965

Igawa Sengai
井川洗崖
1876–1961

Hiroshi Yoshida
吉田博
1876–1950

Nakagawa Hachirō
中川八郎
1877–1922

Hirafuku Hyakusui
平福百穂
1877–1933

Ohara Koson
小原古邨
1877–1945

Nishimura Goun
西村五雲
1877–1938

Konoshima Ōkoku
木島桜谷
1877–1938

Kosaka Gajin
上坂雅人
1877–1953

Akamatsu Rinsaku
赤松麟作
1878–1953

Kaburaki Kiyokata
鏑木清方
1878–1972

Uehara Konen
上原古年
1878–1940

Kikuchi Keigetsu
菊池契月
1879–1955

Tomita Keisen
冨田渓仙
1879–1936

Yamamoto Eishun
山本英春
1879

Hirano Hakuhō
平野白峰
1879–1957

Tanigami Kōnan
谷上廣南
1879–1928

Tsuda Seifū
津田青楓
1880–1978
Saitō Toyosaku
斎藤豊作
1880–1951

Hashiguchi Goyo
橋口五葉
1880–1921

Kitano Tsunetomi
北野恒富
1880–1947

Hasegawa Sadanobu III
長谷川貞信三世
1881–1963
Yamashita Shintarō
山下新太郎
1881–1966

Hirezaki Eiho
鰭崎英朋
1881–1968

Gesso Yoshimoto
吉本月荘
1881–1936

Morita Tsunetomo
森田恒友
1881–1933

Ishii Hakutei
石井柏亭
1882–1958

Oda Kazuma
織田一磨
1882–1956
Sakamoto Hanjirō
坂本繁二郎
1882–1969

Kanae Yamamoto
山本鼎
1882–1946
Arishima Ikuma
有島生馬
1882–1974

Oda Kazuma
織田一磨
1882–1956

Kogan Tobari
戸張孤雁
1882–1927
Takeo Terasaki
寺崎武男
1883–1967

Ikeda Terukata
池田輝方
1883–1921

Hashimoto Kansetsu
橋本関雪
1883–1945
Kitaōji Rosanjin
北大路魯山人
1883–1959

Wada Sanzo
和田三造
1883–1967

Miki Suizan
三木翠山
1883–1957

Kawase Hasui
川瀬巴水
1883–1957

Kobayashi Kokei
小林古径
1883–1957

Walter J. Phillips
1884–1963

Takehisa Yumeji
竹久夢二
1884–1934

Ito Sozan
伊藤宗山
1884
Yasuda Yukihiko
安田靫彦
1884–1978

Fritz Capelari
フリッツ・カペラリ
1884–1950

Kondō Kōichirō
近藤浩一路
1884–1962
Maeda Seison
前田青邨
1885–1977

Noël Nouët
1885–1969

Kawabata Ryūshi
川端龍子
1885–1966

Yamamura Kōka
山村耕花
1885–1942

Obata Chiura
小圃千浦
1885–1975

Yamamura Toyonari
山村豊成
1885–1942
Tomimoto Kenkichi
富本憲吉
1886–1963

Aoyama Kumaji
青山熊治
1886–1932

Ikeda Shōen
池田蕉園
1886–1917

Natori Shunsen
名取春仙
1886–1960

Shimizu Toshi
清水登之
1887–1945

Kato Shinmei
加藤晋明
1887

Komura Settai
小村雪岱
1887–1940

Fujio Yoshida
吉田ふじを
1887–1987
Ishii Tsuruzō
石井鶴三
1887–1973
Elizabeth Keith
エリザベス・キース
1887–1956

Alexandre Iacovleff
1887–1938
Umehara Ryūzaburō
梅原龍三郎
1888–1986

Ohno Bakufu
大野麦風
1888–1976

Yoshijiro Urushibara
漆原木虫
1888–1953

Maekawa Senpan
前川千帆
1888–1960

Takabatake Kashō
高畠華宵
1888–1966
Maekawa Senpan
前川千帆
1888–1960

Murakami Kagaku
村上華岳
1888–1939

Yasui Sōtarō
安井曾太郎
1888–1955

Shodo Kawarazaki
河原崎奨堂
1889–1973
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
国吉康雄
1889–1953
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
1889–1977
Kawai Kanjirō
河井寬次郎
1890–1966

Manjirō Terauchi
寺内萬治郎
1890–1964
Tsuruta Gorō
鶴田吾郎
1890–1969

Kishida Ryūsei
岸田劉生
1891–1929

Nagase Yoshio
永瀬義郎
1891–1978

Hasegawa Toshiyuki
長谷川利行
1891–1940

Suda Kunitarō
須田國太郎
1891–1961

Kiyoshi Hasegawa
長谷川潔
1891–1980

Insho Domoto
堂本印象
1891–1975

Onchi Koshiro
恩地孝四郎
1891–1955

Fujimori Shizuo
藤森静雄
1891–1943

Ota Masamitsu
太田雅光
1892–1975

Shima Seien
島成園
1892–1970
Yamaguchi Hōshun
山口蓬春
1893–1971

Aoyama Masaharu
青山正治
1893–1969

Kimura Shōhachi
木村荘八
1893–1958

Kishio Koizumi
小泉癸巳男
1893–1945

Hide Kawanishi
川西英
1894–1965

Kanpo Yoshikawa
吉川観方
1894–1979
Takei Takeo
武井武雄
1894–1983

Ito Takashi
伊東孝
1894–1982

Gyoshu Hayami
速水御舟
1894–1935

Hayami Gyoshū
速水御舟
1894–1935
Serizawa Keisuke
芹沢銈介
1895–1984

Lillian May Miller
1895–1943

Sumio Kawakami
川上澄生
1895–1972

Henmi Takashi
逸見享
1895–1944

Hiratsuka Un'ichi
平塚運一
1895–1997

Paul Jacoulet
ポール・ジャクレー
1896–1960

Sakuichi Fukazawa
深沢索一
1896–1947
Tsubaki Sadao
椿貞雄
1896–1957

Gen Yamaguchi
山口源
1896–1976

Tsuchiya Rakuzan
土屋楽山
1896–1976

Hatsuyama Shigeru
初山滋
1897–1973
Thomas Handforth
1897–1948

Kanenori Suwa
諏訪兼紀
1897–1932

Yamaguchi Susumu
山口進
1897–1983

Yūzō Saeki
佐伯祐三
1898–1928

Yamakawa Shuho
山川秀峰
1898–1944

Yoshitoshi Mori
森義利
1898–1992

Shiro Kasamatsu
笠松紫浪
1898–1991

Ito Shinsui
伊東深水
1898–1972

Koji Fukiya
蕗谷虹児
1898–1979

Okiie Hashimoto
橋本興家
1899–1993

Asada Benji
浅田弁治
1899–1984

Kobayakawa Kiyoshi
小早川清
1899–1948

Takeji Asano
浅野竹二
1900–1999

Yanagase Keisuke
柳瀬正夢
1900–1945

Torii Kotondo
鳥居言人
1900–1976

Kamei Tobei
亀井東平
1901–1977

Sentaro Iwata
岩田専太郎
1901–1974

Tomikichiro Tokuriki
徳力富吉郎
1902–1999

Inagaki Toshijiro
稲垣稔次郎
1902–1963

Umetaro Azechi
畦地梅太郎
1902–1999

Asai Kiyoshi
朝井清
1902–1968

Tomoo Inagaki
稲垣知雄
1902–1980

Willy Seiler
1903–1997
Shiko Munakata
棟方志功
1903–1975

Migishi Kōtarō
三岸好太郎
1903–1934

Pieter Irwin Brown
1903–1988

Maeda Masao
前田政雄
1904–1974

Maeda Masao
前田政雄
1904–1974
Hashimoto Meiji
橋本明治
1904–1991

Ueno Tadamasa
上野忠雅
1904–1970

Katsuhira Tokushi
勝平得之
1904–1971

Okumura Koichi
奥村厚一
1904–1974

Jiro Yoshihara
吉原 治良
1905–1972

Waichi Hayashi
林和一
1905–1975

Kihei Sasajima
笹島喜平
1906–1993
Yoshioka Kenji
吉岡堅二
1906–1990

Kotozuka Eiichi
琴塚英一
1906–1979

Shimura Tatsumi
志村立美
1907–1980

Gihachiro Okuyama
奥山儀八郎
1907–1981
Edward Millman
1907–1964

Saito Kiyoshi
斎藤清
1907–1997

Takumi Shinagawa
品川工
1908–2009

Tsukioka Gyokusei
月岡玉成
1908–1994
Higashiyama Kaii
東山魁夷
1908–1999

Tadashige Ono
小野忠重
1909–1990

Yozo Hamaguchi
浜口陽三
1909–2000

Motoi Oi
大井基
1910–2004

Ito Nisaburo
伊藤仁三郎
1910–1988

Waichi Tsutaka
津高和一
1911–1995

Nishiyama Hideo
西山英雄
1911–1989

Toshi Yoshida
吉田遠志
1911–1995

Hiroyuki Tajima
田島博之
1911–1984

Nakao Yoshitaka
中尾義隆
1911–1994

Keiko Minami
南桂子
1911–2004

Fujimaki Yoshio
藤牧義夫
1911–1935

Mizufune Rokushu
水船六洲
1912–1980

Matsumoto Shunsuke
松本竣介
1912–1948

Iwami Furusawa
古沢岩美
1912–2000

Hagiwara Hideo
萩原英雄
1913–2007

Hideo Hagiwara
萩原英雄
1913–2007

Sadao Watanabe
渡辺禎雄
1913–1996

Joichi Hoshi
星襄一
1913–1979

Toko Shinoda
篠田桃紅
1913–2021

Takasawa Keiichi
高沢圭一
1914–1984

Hasegawa Konobu (Sadanobu IV)
長谷川小信 / 四代目長谷川貞信
1914–1999

Jun'ichiro Sekino
関野準一郎
1914–1988

Kaoru Kawano
川野薫
1916–1965

Takahashi Rikio
高橋力雄
1917–1998

Yoshida Masaji
吉田政次
1917–1971
Margaret Kennard Johnson
1918–2015

Fumio Kitaoka
北岡文雄
1918–2007

Kumi Sugai
菅井汲
1919–1996

Toru Mabuchi
馬渕徹
1920–1994

Tetsuro Komai
駒井哲郎
1920–1976

Ansei Uchima
内間安瑆
1921–2000

Iwao Akiyama
秋山 巌
1921–2014

Toneyama Kojin
利根山光人
1921–1994

Sadamasa Motonaga
元永 定正
1922–2011

Kanamori Yoshio
金守世士夫
1922

Ikeda Shūzō
池田修三
1922–2004

Kinoshita Tomio
木下富雄
1923–2014

Kawanishi Yuzaburo
川西祐三郎
1923–2014

Chizuko Yoshida
吉田千鶴子
1924–2017

Kazuo Shiraga
白髪 一雄
1924–2008

Maki Haku
巻白
1924–2000

Carol Summers
1925–2016
Kobayashi Donge
小林ドンゲ
1926–2022

Hodaka Yoshida
吉田穂高
1926–1995

Fukita Fumiaki
吹田文明
1926

Ouchi Makoto
大内マコト
1926–1989
Notable Works
Works created during the Taishō Era

Children
1912
Color woodcut

Fishermen
1912
Color woodcut

Goblin Dance
1912
Color woodcut

Kites
1912
Color woodcut

On the River
1912
Color woodcut

Peter
1912
Color woodcut

Rain
1912
Color woodcut

Snowballs
1912
Color woodcut on Japan paper

Temple Gate
1912
Color woodcut

The Bridge
1912
Color woodcut

Through the Night
1912
Color woodcut

Wind and Rain
1912
Color woodcut
Frequently Asked Questions
The Taishō Era (大正時代) ran from 1912 to 1926.
The brief Taishō era witnessed the birth of two pivotal movements that would revitalize Japanese printmaking. Watanabe Shozaburo launched the shin-hanga (new prints) movement, collaborating with artists like Kawase Hasui and Hiroshi Yoshida to produce exquisite landscape prints using traditional carver-printer-publisher teamwork. Simultaneously, the sosaku-hanga (creative prints) movement championed the artist as sole creator—designing, carving, and printing their own works—reflecting Taishō-era individualism and democratic ideals.
Traditional Mokuhanga, Meiji/Taishō Prints, and Sōsaku-hanga were among the movements active during the Taishō Era.
Hanga catalogues 265 artists whose careers overlap with the Taishō Era (1912–1926).
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