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Tokuriki Tomikichirô in his studio, c. 1964

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Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郞), born in Kyoto, was a twelfth-generation member of a family long associated with official artists of the Hongan Temple (本願寺) in Kyoto, including the Kano-school painter Tokuriki Zensetsu (善雪 1591-1680), whose given name Tokuriki (徳力) the young artist adopted as his art name.

He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1924. He also studied nihonga (Japanese-style painting: 日本画) at the private school of Tsuchida Bakusen (土田麦僊 1887-1936) and with Yamamoto Shunkyo (山元春挙 1871-1933).

Tokuriki's first introduction to woodcuts came at the age of 12 or 13 (circa 1914) with his grandfather, a painter who had taken up woodblock printing around Meiji 23 (1890).

In addition, Tokuriki took some short