Doshun Mori

Doshun Mori (森道春, active 1950s–1970s) was a Japanese woodblock print artist associated with the sosaku-hanga movement during the postwar period. Little biographical information has survived about Mori, and his life dates remain unconfirmed, a situation common among the many lesser-known printmakers who worked in Japan during the mid-twentieth century when the sosaku-hanga movement attracted a broad range of practitioners beyond its most celebrated figures.

Mori's known works consist primarily of woodblock prints depicting landscapes and figurative subjects produced in the sosaku-hanga tradition, with the artist designing, carving, and printing each work by hand. His prints occasionally appear at auction and in dealer inventories, typically identified by his carved seal and pencil signature. The subjects and style of his surviving works suggest an artist working competently within the mainstream of postwar Japanese creative printmaking, producing modestly scaled prints for domestic exhibition and the collector market.

The scarcity of documentation about Mori reflects the broader challenge of researching the many artists who participated in the sosaku-hanga movement during its period of greatest activity in the 1950s through 1970s. While major figures like Munakata Shiko and Saito Kiyoshi achieved international fame, dozens of other talented printmakers worked in relative obscurity, their careers documented primarily through the prints themselves and occasional exhibition records.