Born in Osaka in 1906, Kotozuka Eiichi graduated at the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1930. His first woodblock prints were published by the Shun'yô kai from 1932. He joined the Nihon Hanga Kyôkai in 1938. After WWII he worked mainly for the two big Kyoto publishers, Uchida and Unsodo. He often collaborated with Tokuriki Tomikichirô and with Kamei Tôbei on many projects and series of prints.
