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Biography Hiroshima, Shintarō (1889 - 1951)

Born in Tokushima, Hiroshima Shintarō graduated at the Japanese-style painting division of the Tokyo School of FIne Arts in 1912. He also studied at the school of Hakubakai (the White Horse Society), founded by Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924) in 1896.
In 1914 he started making woodblock prints, and he contributed to Kamen and to the only exhibition of the short-lived Nihon Sōsaku-Hanga Club in 1916. In 1920 he changed his name to Kōho. He was a member of the Nihon Sōsaku Hanga Kyōkai and of its successor, the Nihon Hanga Kyōkai. In the latter part of his career he concentrated on painting, becoming an exhibitor and juror of both the Teiten and Nitten.



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