Maekawa Senpan
Japanese, 1888-1960
- Names
Maekawa Senpan
前川千帆
Maekawa Sempan
Ishida Jûzaburô
石田重三郎
- Born
Kyoto October 5, 1888
- Occupation or Type
printmaker
- Bio
Maekawa's real name was Ishida Jûzaburô 石田重三郎. He studied oil painting at the Kansai Art Academy (Kansai Bijutsu In) in Kyoto, where one of his instructors was Asai Chū. He became an illustrator and cartoonist to support himself, and in 1911 he moved to Tokyo to work for Puck 東京パック社, a satiric periodical. He taught himself to make woodblock prints and exhibited in the first art show of the Sōsaku Hanga Kyōkai in 1919. Although Maekawa was the oldest of the artists in the group, his progressive views made his work modern.
- Gender
Male
- Related People
Student of: Asai Chū (Japanese, 1856-1907)
Member of: Nihon Hanga Kyōkai (Japanese)