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Kōitsu Tsuchiya 土屋光逸 (–) was a master landscape print designer part of the New Prints Movement (shin&#;hanga) in early 20th c. Japan. His prints, known for their intriguing color schemes and theatrical use of light, are referred to as light ray pictures (kosen&#;ga).

Tsuchiya Kōitsu was born Tsuchiya Sahei in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. He was sent to Tokyo at age 15 to train at a temple but was referred to an engraving apprenticeship when the temple priests recognized his artistic talent. From to , he studied under the Meiji master Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林 清親 (–). Over the course of his apprenticeship, he refined his technique in lithography, woodcut and painting. Many of Kōitsu’s early designs as part of Kiyochika’s atelier were commercial prints commemorating scenes from the First Sino&#;Japanese War (–) for Kiyochika’s publishers, Sawamura Seikichi 沢村屋清吉 (active ca. –) and Inoue Kichijirō 井上吉次郎 (activ

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Tsuchiya Kōitsu (Japanese: 土屋光逸) was a Japanese artist in the Shin-hanga movement.

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Kōitsu Tsuchiya 土屋光逸 (–) was a master landscape print designer part of the New Prints Movement (shin-hanga) in early 20th c.

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Tsuchiya Koitsu was born on September 23, , in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

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koitsu tsuchiya biography He became a pupil of Kyochika Kobayashi in and from him learned the art of wood engraving.

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Tsuchiya Kōitsu (Japanese: 土屋光逸) was a Japanese artist in the Shin-hanga movement.

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Kōitsu Tsuchiya 土屋光逸 (1870–1949) was a master landscape print designer part of the New Prints Movement (shin-hanga) in early 20th c.

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Koitsu Tsuchiya Born in in Shizuoka prefecture, Koitsu moved to Tokyo at the age of fifteen.