Shiro Kasamatsu1898~1991 笠松紫浪

Shiro Kasamatsu (January 11, 1898 – June 14, 1991) was a Japanese ukiyo-e, shin hanga, and nihonga artist born in Asakusa, Tokyo. At age 14 he entered the studio of Kaburaki Kiyokata, studying nihonga alongside Ito Shinsui and Kawase Hasui. From 1919 he produced over 50 shin hanga designs for the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo, and from 1952 to 1960 he made 102 prints with the Kyoto publisher Unsodo, specializing in atmospheric landscapes of night, snow, and rain. From 1955 onward he also pursued sosaku hanga, self-carving and self-printing about 120 of his own works, which earned him the title “the last shin hanga artist.”