Shotei Takahashi Hiroaki Takahashi

<p>Takahashi Sh��tei (������������) born Hiroaki (1871 - 11 February 1945) was a 20th-century Japanese woodblock artist in the shinsaku-hanga and later shin-hanga art movements.</p><p>When he was 16 years old he started a job with the Imperial Household Department of Foreign Affairs where he copied the designs of foreign ceremonial objects.</p><p>In 1907 as a successful artist he was recruited by Watanabe Sh��zabur�� to contribute shinsaku-hanga (souvenir prints) in Japan. Watanabe helped to fulfill the Western demand for newly-styled ukiyo-e woodblock prints which would be similar to familiar historical masters of that genre especially Hiroshige.</p><p>In the 1930s while still working for Watanabe he also designed some <em>oban</em> (and larger) prints for the publisher Fusui Gabo.</p><p>Shotei died of pneumonia on February 11 1945.</p>