Yamakawa Shūhō

Yamakawa Shūhō (山川 秀峰, 1898–1944) was a Japanese painter active in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, as well as a printmaker of the Shin-hanga movement.

He was born in Kyoto with the name Yamakawa Yoshio.

[1] Yamakawa then went on to study with Kiyokata Kaburagi.

In the late 1920s, he started designing woodblocks prints of beautiful women, many of which were published by Shōzaburō Watanabe.

[2] The Art Institute of Chicago and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding paintings by Yamakawa Shūhō.