The Hanga Gallery, located in Durham, North Carolina, specializes in Japanese shin hanga prints of the early 20th century and selected modern prints. More about the Hanga Gallery

Hashiguchi Goyo is one of the most celebrated shin hanga artists, particularly renowned for his woodblock prints of beautiful women, also known as bijin-ga. The design and carving of Goyo's prints is technically masterful, and they were lavishly printed, …

Torii Kotondo (or Torii Kiyotada VIII) is renowned for his paintings and shin hanga prints of beautiful women. His woodblock prints, superbly carved and printed, are comparable with those of Hashiguchi Goyo and Ito Shinsui .

Urushibara carved and printed his own designs, but he is rarely thought of as a sosaku hanga printmaker, probably because his subject matter was more like that of shin hanga artists. He designed numerous kacho-e prints of formally arranged flowers and wildlife.

Asano helped to organize the Kyoto Creative Print Society (Kyoto Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai) in 1929. In 1930, Asano contributed several designs to a series of prints titled "Creative Prints of Twelve Months in new Kyoto" ( Sosaku-hanga shin Kyoto junikagetsu ).

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Although Shiro's self-made prints lack the refined carving of his shin hanga designs, they have a simplicity and expressiveness that is very appealing. The upward carving strokes and angular lines of Five Story Pagoda at Dusk make it one of Shiro's most dynamic prints.

Similar to the ukiyo-e prints of Sharaku and Toyokuni, Toyonari's simple design has a flat stylized quality rarely seen in later shin hanga. Ota's portrait is much more three-dimensional, employing the Western techniques of perspective and shading.

Toshi was part of the second generation of the Yoshida family to work in the woodblock medium. Both his father, Hiroshi Yoshida, and mother, Fujio Yoshida, were artists and printmakers.Toshi first studied the techniques of woodblock printing in his father's studio, and the subject matter of his earlier prints is reminiscent of Hiroshi's work.

Fritz Capelari was the first Western artist to design prints for the shin hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Born with the name Friedrich Capelari in 1884, Fritz grew up in Bleiburg, a town in the Carinthia district of southern Austria.