Tokuriki Tomikichirô (1902 - 2000)

Tokuriki Tomikichirô came from a long line of artists, the earliest a Kano school painter in the early 17th century. As he said himself (quotation from Oliver Statler's book): "Fate made me an artist, but I made myself a hanga artist".
As a young man he was trained as an artist until he graduated at the Kyôto Art College in 1923. After the Tokyô earthquake in September of that year he met a number of Tokyô artists who had moved to Kyoto. He met Hiratsuka and the group around him, and then turned all his attention to Hanga.
Throughout his career he produced two separate kinds of woodblock prints: so-called "artisan prints", mainly landscape prints produced for some Kyôto publishers (Unsôdô being the most well-known among them), and "creative prints" produced for his own pleasure. He was very active promoting sôsaku-hanga in Kyôto.
After WWII he established Matsukyû Publishing Company to produce and distribute his own prints, and Kôrokusha, a subdivision of that company, to publish self-carved, self-printed Hanga by Takahashi Tasaburô, Kamei Tôbei and himself.

Tokuriki's creative prints are much better than his bread-and-butter prints. The former have easily withstood the passage of time, whereas of his other (commercially produced) landscape prints only the more daring designs still stand out.
But Tokuriki was a cautious man, who next to his commercial print activities also had a shop selling tea.