Yoshijiro Urushibara ─ A Japanese Printmaker in London, A Catalogue Raisonne

This publication is a catalogue raissoné of the work of Urushibara Yoshijiro (1889-1953), who came to London at the age of twenty-one. During his thirty years in Europe he produced a remarkable number of prints and played a major role in ecouraging the production and appreciation of the colour woodcut in the Japanese manner. His most famous and successful collaboration was with Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) and throughout his career Urushibara contributed to the crss-cultural flowing between European and Japanese art at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Hilary Chapman MA is an art historian and print dealer specialising in early 20th century British prints. She has published catalogues, monographs, and articles, the most recent in Print Quarterly, 2016, Yoshijiro Urushibara and Frank Brangwyn: A Question of Size.Dr Libby Horner is an art historian, a compulsive cataloguer and the world’s leading authority on Frank Brangwyn. She is compiling the catalogue raisonne of all his works, the most recent publication being Brangwyn at WAR! (Goldmark, 2014).