Schools and Movements
Japanese printmaking, as many other features of Japanese art, tended to organise itself into schools and movements. The most notable schools and, later, movements of moku hanga were:
- Torii school, from 1700
- Kaigetsudō school, from 1700–14
- Katsukawa school, from about 1740, including the artists Suzuki Harunobu and Hokusai
- Utagawa school, from 1842, including the artist Kunisada
- Sōsaku hanga, "Creative Prints" movement, from 1904
- Shin hanga "New Prints" movement, from 1915
Other artists, such as Utamaro, Sharaku, and Hiroshige did not belong to a specific school, and drew from a wider tradition.
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