Fukazawa Sakuichi - Cristina Berna;Eric Thomsen

Fukazawa Sakuichi or Sakuichi Fukazawa (4 September 1896 - 12 January 1947) was a Japanese painter and woodblock printer working within the sosaku-hanga "creative prints" movement.

Fukazawa was born in Niigata Prefecture and moved to Tokyo at a young age, where he attended Tokyo Central School of Commerce and Industry. Around 1918 he learnt the art of woodblock printing under Suwa Kanenori and exhibited at the Sosaku Hanga Kyokai (Creative Print Association) in 1922.

He was a founding member of the Nippon Hanga Kyokai (Japan Print Association) in 1931. He worked for the Han magazine alongside Hiratsuka Un'ichi (1895-1997), Azechi Umetaro (1902-1999) and Munakata Shiko (1903-1975), see authors´ books on these artists. He contributed thirteen prints to the series Shin Tokyo Hyakkei ("One Hundred Views of New Tokyo") which was produced from 1928 to 1932. Fukazawa Sakuichi took part in the painting events at the 1932 and 1936 Olympic Games. From 1936 he designed woodblock-printed covers for books.

Some examples of such covers are included in this book.