Kawabata Gyokushö

Born in Kyoto. Family of lacquer artists. Given name Takinosuke. Studied Shijö-style painting with Nakajima Raishö; then studied Western-style painting briefly with Charles Wirgman but returned to working in the Japanese tradition. Became professor of Shijö-style painting at Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Later opened the Kawabata Painting School, a preparatory school for students seeking admission to Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Posthumous moku-hanga may have been made from his works as late as the 1930s.

Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975

U.S.A.: University of Hawaii Press, 1992, Page 57