Introduction to Taninaka Yasunori Taninaka Yasunori (谷中安規) was a Japanese printmaker born in Nara Prefecture in 1897 and tragically perished in Tokyo in 1946 during the final days of World War II. He stands as a pivotal figure within the *sosaku hanga* movement—a revolutionary artistic endeavor that championed uncompromising individual expression and rejected the conventional collaborative framework prevalent in traditional *ukiyo-e*. This movement, born from the ashes of Western Impressionism, sought to liberate Japanese printmaking from rigid conventions, prioritizing intuition and emotion…