Hashimoto Okiie 橋本興家, 1899 - 1993.
Okiie Hashimoto was born in Tottori Prefecture. In 1924 he graduated as as an art
teacher from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, specializing in watercolours. After attending
Hiratsuka Un'ichi's short course in woodblock printing at the Nihon Bijutsu Gakkō (the
Nihon School of Fine Arts) he became good friends with him, and he became a member of
his circle. Initially he was a part-time printmaker until 1955,
the rest of his time he spent on his job as assistant principal of Tokyo's First
Women's High School. After his retirement he spent all his time on
printmaking.
See:
- Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1992), p. 30.
- Mary and Norman Tolman. Collecting Modern Japanese Prints Then & Now (Rutland Vermont & Tokyo Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1994), p.224.
Creator.Personal Name: Hashimoto Okiie, 1899 - 1993.
Creator.Role: print-maker
Title: 敷石 (A) = Paving Stones (A)
Description: colored woodblock print; dated 1960; edition number 3/50; artist's seal within image (橋 = Hashi) and pencil signed in margin.
Date: 1960.
Subject: Peacocks.
Subject: Stepping stones.
Type: Woodcuts.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: Prints.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 20 1/2 x 25 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
ID: Hashimoto Okiie XL-1
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.
