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was a Japanese print publisher and the driving force behind the Japanese printmaking movement known as ''shin-hanga'' ("new prints"). == Biography == He started his career working for the export company of Kobayashi Bunshichi, which gave him an opportunity to learn about exporting art prints. In 1908, Watanabe married Chiyo, a daughter of the woodblock carver Chikamatsu.〔Miles, Richard and Jennifer Saville, p. 55〕〔(Artlino )〕 Watanabe employed highly skilled carvers and printers, and commissioned artists to design prints that combined traditional Japanese techniques with elements of contemporary Western painting, such as perspective and shadows. Watanabe coined the term ''shin-hanga'' in 1915 to describe such prints. Charles W. Bartlett, Hashiguchi Goyō, Kawase Hasui, Yoshida Hiroshi, Kasamatsu Shirō, Torii Kōtondō, Ohara Koson (Shōson), Terashima Shimei, Itō Shinsui, Takahashi Shōtei (Hiroaki) and Yamakawa Shuho are among the artists whose works he published.〔Miles, Richard and Jennifer Saville, p. 20〕 Much of his company's stockpile of both prints and their original printing-blocks was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. In the following years, new versions of many of these prints were created, using re-carved blocks; typically, the re-issued "post-quake" prints included changes/revisions in the design. Watanabe exported most of his ''shin-hanga'' prints to the United States and Europe due to a lack of Japanese interest. After the close of World War II, his heirs continued the business, which still operates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shōzaburō Watanabe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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