Kinoshita Tomio

Kinoshita Tomio (木下富雄, 1923–2014) was a Japanese sosaku-hanga printmaker born in Mie Prefecture who turned from architecture to printmaking after World War II, producing bold, psychologically charged woodblock prints of abstracted human figures and masks. He won the Japan Print Association Award in 1958 and the Kokuga Award in 1960, exhibiting internationally at the Tokyo International Print Biennale and in Europe and the United States. His work is characterized by powerful graphic forms, limited color palettes, and an exploration of identity and metaphysical tension through the motif of the human face.

Kinoshita Tomio was active from 1923 to 2014. They were associated with the Sōsaku-hanga movement.

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

Original prints by Kinoshita Tomio can be found in collections including Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Harvard Art Museums, Honolulu Museum of Art.