Biographical Data
Biography
Ōshiro Sadao 大城貞夫 (1908-1981)Sources: Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900 – 1975, Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, p. 125; Japanese Wood-block Prints, Shizuya Fujikake, Japan Travel Bureau, 1953, p. 193.
Born in Hamamatsu, a small industrial city located betweenTokyo and Osaka, Ōshiro studied design at Hamamatsu Technical School where hewas later to teach, as he did at Hamamatsu First High School for 15 years. He exhibited with, and was a member of, Dōdosha(a sosaku-hanga society founded in 1929) and Nihon Hanga Kyōkai (Japan PrintAssociation) and was a member of Sosaku-Hanga Kyōkai founded in Osaka around1976. By 1953 he had moved to Kyotowhere he established himself as a dyeing and weaving designer. While only a minor figure in sōsaku hangacircles, both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum ofArt hold one of his prints in their collections.
Example of Artist's Signature
 Ōshiro |  |
 10 x 13 7/8 in. (25.4 x 35.2 cm) sheet Carnegie Museum of Art, 89.28.1140 |  |
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