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Biography Nakao, Yoshitaka (1911 - 1994)

Nakao Yoshitaka was born in 1911. He studied woodblock printing with Azechi Umetarō, but after WWII he also made cement prints. From 1948 he was a member of the Nihon Hanga Kyōkai. He is mainly known for his representations of people and objects in a simplifiued abstract form. On three occasions (1946, 1949 and 1950) he contributed prints to the Ichimokushū (The First Thursday Collection).