Yamamoto Kanae
1882 - 1946
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BiographyYamamoto Kanae was founder of the Japanese creative print movement and a very important figure in the history of the modern woodblock print. He was trained as a woodblock print engraver in the Western style, later graduating from the Tokyo Art School and studying for several years in Paris. His travel sketches thorughout Europe and Russia provided a source for his numerous landscapes and portraits done in Japan.