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Biography Shimizu, Kôichi (1895 - ?)

Born in Tokyo, Shimizu Kôichi studied at the Kawabata Painting school, and he was a student of Nagase Yoshi(r)o. In 1927 he first exhibited with the Nihon Sôsaku-Hanga Kyôkai, and with the Nihon Hanga Kyôkai in the 1930s. He is mainly known for work he did in the 1930s. He also printed for several of his colleagues. He contributed a print to that most important print series of the late 1930s, One Hundred Views of New Japan - Shin Nihon hyakkei. No work of his work made after 1940 is known, nor is the year of his death.