Urushibara Mokuchu

Urushibara Mokuchu (漆原木虫) (1888–1953), given name Yoshijirō, was a Japanese print maker known for his many black-and-white prints of horses. He lived in Europe for many years, and exhibited in the United States after World War II.

Biography Urushibara Yoshijirô was born in Tokyo in 1888 and studied mokuhan as a young man. In 1908, aged nineteen, he travelled to London, It is unclear whether the smaller prints are contemporaneous to the larger impressions, and archival materials suggest that they were made later. The purpose of the scaling exercise is similarly ambiguous. Hilary Chapman hypothesises that the popularity of the subjects may have motivated Brangwyn to commission the smaller prints. In 1924, Urushibara produced with Brangwyn the portfolio Ten Woodcuts by Yoshijirô Urushibara after Designs by Frank Brangwyn.

Urushibara was influential in the English revival of colour woodblock printing in the 1920s and 1930s. Later Urushibara donated some of these works to the British Museum.

Urushibara returned to Japan in 1934. After 1945 he exhibited in the United States