Artist: Shiro Kasamatsu (1898 – 1991). Shiro Kasamatsu was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga styles of woodblock printing. Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shozoburo Watanabe from 1919. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960. He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sosaku Hanga style. He produced over 100 Sosaku Hanga prints between 1955 and 1987. Size: (including margins) 42 cm x 28.5 cm: (image only) 37 cm x 25 cm.