Early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods. It advocated the principles of "self-drawn" (jiga), "self-carved" (jikoku) and "self-printed" (jizuri) art, stressing the artist, motivated by a desire for self-expression, as the sole creator.


Clifton Karhu

Fumio Kitaoka

Gihachiro Okuyama

Haku Maki

Hide Kawanishi

Hideo Hagiwara

Hodaka Yoshida (woodblock, Lithograph)

Iwao Akiyama

Joichi Hoshi

Junichiro Sekino

Kan Kawada

Kihei Sasajima

Kiyoshi Saito

Koshiro Onchi

Okiie Hashimoto

Senpan Maekawa

Susumu Yamaguchi

Tadashi Nakayama

Tomikichiro Tokuriki

Tomoo Inagaki

Toru Mabuchi

Umetaro Azechi

Unichi Hiratsuka

Yoshitoshi Mori