Joichi Hoshi (1911-1979)
Joichi Hoshi was born in Niigata prefecture and educated in Taiwan. He returned to Japan after World War II, where he studied oil painting. He has been exhibited at the Sao Paulo and Tokyo Print Biennials. Strongly attracted to elements of nature, the artist's earlier prints depict stars and constellations, but by the 1970's, he focused on the subject of trees -- the images for which he is best known.
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