About the artist
Teruhide Kato (1936–2015) was a Kyoto-based Japanese artist known for his atmospheric woodblock prints depicting the city’s temples, streets, and seasonal landscapes. Trained in nihonga painting at Kyoto Art College, he first gained recognition as a kimono designer in the 1960s and 1970s before transitioning to printmaking in the mid-1980s. Specializing in elegant tanzaku-format compositions, Kato captured scenes of cherry blossoms, lantern-lit alleys, rain, and snow with a refined, modern sensibility that blends elements of shin hanga and sōsaku hanga. His prints were often issued in open editions, making his evocative visions of Kyoto accessible to a broad international audience.