Shiro Kasamatsu

was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin-Hanga and Sōsaku-Hanga styles of woodblock printing.

Kasamatsu was born in Tokyo in 1898 and apprenticed at the age of 13 to Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878–1973), a traditional master of ''Bijin-ga'', pictures of beautiful women. Kasamatsu however took an interest in landscape and was given the pseudonym Shiro by his teacher, which he used as a signature mark in his prints. Kasamatsu made woodblock prints for the publisher Shōzaburō Watanabe from 1919. Almost all the woodblocks were destroyed in a fire in Watanabe's print shop following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Around 50 prints were published by Watanabe by the late 1940s. Kasamatsu began to partner with Unsodo in Kyoto from the 1950s and produced over 100 prints by 1960. He also began to print and publish on his own in the Sōsaku-Hanga style. He produced nearly 80 Sōsaku-Hanga prints between 1955 and 1965.

File:De rand van de Shinobazu vijver tijdens een mistige avond. Kasumu yube Shinobazu chihan (titel op object), RP-P-1998-389.jpg|''The edge of Shinobazu pond during a foggy evening'', 1932 File:De grote lantaarn van de Kannon tempel in Asakusa Asakusa Kannondo ochochin (serietitel op object), RP-P-1968-275.jpg|''The Large Lantern in the Kannon Temple in Asakusa'', woodblock print, 1934 File:De warme bronnen van Shuzenji Shuzenji onsen (titel op object), RP-P-1968-277.jpg|''The hot springs of Shuzenji. Shuzenji onsen'', 1937 Provided by Wikipedia