Ide Gakusui

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Biography:

A traditional painter in the Japanese style (nihonga) who specialized in kacho-ga (bird and flower drawings), Ide designed prints for the Watanabe Publishing Company beginning in the spring of 1949 and continued his association with Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962) until the mid-1950s.  Watanabe's 1963 catalog lists fifteen prints Ide designed, all of them of the bird and flower genre.

Additional Information:

Born: 1899
Died: 1978