page_title: Yamakawa Shūhō
hierarchical_section_title: Yamakawa Shūhō
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 「三人の姉妹」四曲一隻 絹本彩色 English: "Three Sisters", painted four-fold screen, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 11822.1
context_page_description: Yamakawa Shūhō 山川秀峰 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. His first teacher, Ikegami Shūhō, gave him the name Yamakawa Shūhō. Yamakawa then went on to study with Kiyokata Kaburagi. He also worked as an illustrator in the 1930s. In the late 1920s, he started designing woodblocks prints of beautiful women, many of which were published by Shōzaburō Watanabe. Yamakawa Shūhō died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944.
  The Art Institute of Chicago and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding paintings by Yamakawa Shūhō.
context_section_description: 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. His first teacher, Ikegami Shūhō (1874-1944), gave him the name Yamakawa Shūhō. Yamakawa then went on to study with Kiyokata Kaburagi. He also worked as an illustrator in the 1930s. In the late 1920s, he started designing woodblocks prints of beautiful women, many of which were published by Shōzaburō Watanabe. Yamakawa Shūhō died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944.
  The Art Institute of Chicago and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding paintings by Yamakawa Shūhō.
caption: Three Sisters by Yamakawa Shūhō, 1936, Honolulu Museum of Art
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