Shoun (1870 - 1965 )

Shoun Yamamoto was a painter, illustrator and print artist active from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. Initially trained in both Japanese and Chinese painting, Shoun worked primarily as painter, exhibiting regularly at the national juried exhibitions, Bunten and Teiten. Shoun also worked as an illustrator in Tokyo and designed prints in the spirit of the shin hanga (new print) movement. As a printmaker, he is best known for his series of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) Fashions of Today (1906-1909), kacho-e (bird-and-flower prints), and for his atmospheric landscapes. Shoun also completed a series of prints titled Kodomo Asobi (c.1906), whichdepicts children at play. Many of Shoun's prints were published by Heikichi Matsuki.

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

  • Landscapes
  • Moon & Night
  • Rain
  • Waterscapes

Period

  • 1912 - 1945 (Taisho & Early Showa)

Medium

  • Woodblock Print

Size

  • Medium (ie. Oban)

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Parasols at the Riverside

Shoun

Parasols at the Riverside

JPR-208129

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