Shimura Tatsumi (志村立美) (artist 1907 – 1980)

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Biography:

Kendall Brown lists Shimura Tatsumi as one of the students of Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878-1972).

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"Tatsumi was a student of Kaburagi Kiyokata, an influential artist and illustrator who figured prominently in the careers of many shin hanga artists. He may have also studied with Yamakawa Shūhō (1898-1944), another student of Kiyokata. Tatsumi trained as a nihonga painter, exhibiting with the Native Place Society (Kyōdokai), an association comprised of Kiyokata's students, and the Blue Collar Society (Seikinkai), a group of nihonga artists founded by Itō Shinsui and Yamakawa Shūhō. Like many early-twentieth-century artists, Tatsumi also supported himself as an illustrator. From the mid-1920s through the early 1930s he designed kuchi-e for numerous magazines, notably Fujokai (Woman's World). He also provided illustrations for newspapers and novels during that time. Tatsumi's shin hanga encompassed landscapes and bijinga. He was one of several artists who contributed to the 1932 series One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo (Dai Tokyo hakkei). With this project Tatsumi established an affiliation with the publisher Katō Junzō (n.d.) of the Nihon Hanga Kenkyūsho who published many of his prints in the late 1940s and early 1950s."

Quoted from: The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints, edited by Allen Hockley, Hood Museum of Art, p. 123.