Yoshio Fujimaki

(January 19, 1911 – disappeared September 2, 1935）was a Japanese printmaker who was part of the Sōsaku-hanga movement. He focused mainly on depicting the Shitamachi area of Tokyo during the 1930s, and is known for creating a long Hakubyō scroll print focusing on areas surrounding the Sumida River. Fujimaki became an obscure figure after his disappearance at the age of 24, but a 1978 exhibition renewed interest in his work. His family were shizoku who served the Tatebayashi Han. After the Meiji Restoration, his father worked as an educator and served for a time as principal of an elementary school; he also painted and wrote calligraphy using the art name Sangaku . Fujimaki's mother and father died in his childhood; when he was the age of 2 and 13 respectively. After his father's death, the family started a daily goods store at their home. A neighbor of note at the time was , who lived two houses next to them.

Fujimaki showed talent in artwork during his elementary school days and surprised those around him. After moving to Tokyo in 1927,

Disappearance After visiting fellow printmaker Tadashige Ono's home Fujimaki disappeared. Ono told his friends that Fujimaki suffered from poverty and sank in to the Sumida River, and on the pamphlet of the 1978 exhibition, Ono wrote that he told him that he canceled his room and entrusted him with two furoshiki wrappings before leaving. Ono's statement led to suspicions that he threw himself in to the Sumida River to commit suicide. He had 10 children, but out of those, the only male offsprings that survived was his 2nd-born son and the last child (Yoshio) that he had when he was 54. 1931 - Exhibits Guard-shita no Spark (woodprint) at the 9th Shunyo-kai Exhibit,

Collections Fifty-six of his works are held in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Art Institute of Chicago holds one of his prints in its collection.

Documentary "Fujimaki Yoshio 'Red Sun'" TV Tokyo et al., 2007 "Jidai ni ikiyo Jidai wo koeyo ~Hangaka Fujimaki Yoshio" NHK 2012 Shin Bi no kyojin tachi "Attoteki hyogenryoku! Fujimaki Yoshio 'Sumidagawa Emaki' x Kaname Jun'" TV Tokyo et al., 2020