Kasamatsu Shiro Unbound

Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪, Kasamatsu Shirō, 11 January 1898, Tokyo - 14 June 1991) was a Japanese engraver and print maker trained in the Shin-Hanga and Sōsaku-Hanga styles of woodblock printing
The prints of Shiro´s later period shows the pressure of the artistic genius against the formats of the market, with him making distinctive and unusual prints in small runs of self-published prints to satisfy his own thirst of expression.