Okumura, Koichi (1904 - 1974 )

Koichi Okumura was a 19th century landscape painter and print designer best known for his views of Kyoto. Born in Kyoto, Okumura studied Japanese-style painting with Goun Nishimura and graduated from Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting. He built his reputation as a landscape painter and actively exhibited his paintings in state-sponsored exhibitions in the years before WWII. Following the end of the war, American soldiers provided a newfound audience for woodblock prints. Beginning in 1948, Okumura worked with the publisher Unsodo and designed several print series, such as Twelve Views of Kyoto (1948). Okumura taught at Saga Fine Arts Junior College and became a professor at Kyoto City University of the Arts.

Shin Hanga | Pre-WWII Japanese Prints

By the beginning of the 20th century the social fabric of Japan was radically altered and ukiyo-e was falling fast into oblivion. Surprisingly, it was under the stimulus of the Western art world that the spirit of ukiyo-e was reborn through the Shin Hanga or “new print” movement. The discovery of the powerful impact of ukiyo-e print masters on the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists inspired a new generation of Japanese print artists who revived distinctly Japanese subject matter through modern eyes. International excitement for ukiyo-e paved the way for these artists to create woodblock prints with the same dignity, perfection and genius as the masters of the Edo period. As artists such as Goyo, Kotondo and Shinsui revived bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and Hasui and Yoshida reinterpreted the landscape of Japan, Shin Hanga reasserted the principal genres of ukiyo-e with a renewed vigor. Browse our collection of Shin Hanga and other pre-war Japanese artworks today.

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Artist

  • Bakufu
  • Goyo
  • Hasui
  • Hoson
  • Ikeda, Zuigetsu
  • Inuzuka, Taisui
  • Kanpo
  • Keibun
  • Kiyoshi
  • Kiyotada IV
  • Kogyo
  • Koitsu
  • Koson
  • Kotondo
  • Kuzuhara, Teru
  • Morikane
  • Murakami, Sadao
  • Nakayama, Shuko
  • Nishimura, Hodo
  • Okada, Koichi
  • Okumura, Koichi
  • Rakusan (Rakuzan)
  • Shin'ei
  • Shinsui
  • Shiro
  • Shoson
  • Shoun
  • Shuho
  • Chigusa, Soun
  • Sozan
  • Tadamasa
  • Taniguchi, Kokyo
  • Tatsumi
  • Toyonari
  • Uehara, Konen
  • Baldridge, Cyrus LeRoy
  • Bartlett, Charles
  • Keith, Elizabeth
  • Foujita, Tsuguharu
  • Hyde, Helen
  • Ide, Gakusui
  • Ishiwata, Koitsu
  • Ito, Yuhan
  • Jacoulet, Paul
  • Kotozuka, Eiichi
  • Lum, Bertha
  • Miki, Suizan
  • Miller, Lilian
  • Oda, Kazuma
  • Okuyama, Gihachiro
  • Saito, Kiyoshi
  • Seiler, Willy
  • Ashikaga, Shizuo
  • Kawarazaki, Shodo
  • Shotei (aka Hiroaki)
  • Mori, Shuncho
  • Natori, Shunsen
  • Takane, Koko
  • Ito, Takashi
  • Takeshita, Kin-u
  • Tanigami, Konan
  • Tokuriki, Tomikichiro
  • Unsigned / Unknown Artist
  • Yoshida, Hiroshi
  • Yoshida, Toshi

Subject

  • Autumn
  • Bridges
  • Landscapes

Period

  • 1945 - 1989 (Showa & Postwar Period)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Takao in Autumn

Okumura, Koichi

Takao in Autumn

JPR-207790

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