Inagaki Toshijiro

Inagaki Toshijiro, also known as Nenjiro, was a Kyoto-born printmaker and textile artist who specialized in katazome stencil dyeing. He studied at Kyoto City University of Arts and learned dyeing at the Matsuzakaya department store before devoting himself to art full-time in 1931. Designated an Intangible Cultural Property (Living National Treasure) in 1962, he applied his stencil-dyed textile techniques to woodblock prints, creating stylized designs featuring geometric shapes and unusual gradations that bridge traditional craft and modern sosaku-hanga.

Inagaki Toshijiro was active from 1902 to 1963. They were associated with the Sōsaku-hanga movement.

Inagaki Toshijiro's work was shaped by the Sōsaku-hanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Sōsaku-hanga: The "creative prints" movement (c.

Original prints by Inagaki Toshijiro can be found in collections including Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Art Museums, wbp, Minneapolis Institute of Art.