Asian Art

Koizumi Kishio

Koizumi Kishio (小泉癸巳男; 1893–1945) was a woodblock print artist and member of the creative print movement or sōsaku hanga in the early to mid-twentieth century. He is most famously known for his series "One Hundred Pictures of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era" (Shōwa Dai-Tōkyō Hyaku Zue), which he made between 1928 and 1940 (not to be confused with the multi-artist series "One Hundred Pictures of New Tokyo", created by eight of Koizumi's contemporaries including Kōshirō Onchi and Senpan Maekawa). Koizumi's work depicts the rapidly modernising city of Tokyo and its recovery in the years following the Great Kantō Earthquake in September 1923. Koizumi is also recognised for his technical publication on woodblock printing published in 1924 entitled The Method of Cutting and Printing Woodblock Prints (Mokuhanga no horikata to surikata), and this textbook was used by many of his colleagues and fellow woodblock artists.

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• ▸1907 Tiflis bank robbery
• ▸Cavacha
• ▸Empress Jingū

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