Ikeda Zuigetsu

Ikeda Zuigetsu (池田瑞月, active 1920s–1940s) was a Japanese woodblock print artist who worked in the kacho-e (bird-and-flower) genre during the shin-hanga era. Little biographical information has survived about this artist, and the dates of birth and death are not recorded in the standard references.

Ikeda's prints depict traditional kacho-e subjects — birds, flowers, and other elements of the natural world — rendered in the refined style characteristic of the shin-hanga movement. His work demonstrates competence in the conventions of the genre, with careful attention to botanical and ornithological detail and harmonious color compositions that reflect the Japanese aesthetic tradition of celebrating nature through art.

The prints attributed to Ikeda Zuigetsu appear infrequently in the market, and the artist remains one of the many lesser-known practitioners who contributed to the kacho-e tradition during the early to mid-twentieth century. His work is of interest to collectors seeking to explore the full range of shin-hanga era nature prints beyond the more famous names in the genre.