Hakutei Ishii1882~1958 石井柏亭

Ishii Hakutei (1882-1958) was a Japanese Western-style painter, printmaker, and art critic born in Shitaya-ku (now Taito-ku), Tokyo. His father was the Japanese painter Ishii Teiko, and his younger brother was the sculptor Ishii Tsuruzō. He studied under Asai Chū from 1897 and in 1907 co-founded the art magazine “Hōsun” with Yamamoto Kanae, pioneering the modern creative print (sōsaku hanga) movement. In 1913 he established the Japan Watercolor Society, and in 1914 co-founded the Nikakai with Arishima Ikuma. He became a member of the Imperial Art Academy in 1935, making significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese art.