Hideo Hagiwara

Hideo Hagiwara (萩原 英雄, Hagiwara Hideo, 1913 – November 4, 2007) was a Japanese artist who worked mainly with woodblock prints.

He studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he graduated at the Oil Painting Section in 1938.

While still there he attended Un'ichi Hiratsuka's extracurricular woodblock printing course, and in the same year he became quality controller at the Takamizawa Woodblock Print Company.

At the same time he started making Sōsaku Hanga, both figurative and abstract prints.

He was known as a constant innovator and he was generally considered one of the best post-World War II Sōsaku Hanga artists.