{"id":20,"count":7,"description":"Suzuki Kason, sometimes romanized as Kwason or Kwasson, was born in Tokyo as the son of an Edo kimono merchant. He undertook artistic artistic training in <i>nihonga<\/i> at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and studied woodblock printing under the tutelage of master <i>s\u014dsaku hanga<\/i> printer Hiratsuka Un\u2019ichi. He began working on crepe-paper books with Hasegawa Takejir\u014d in 1887 beginning with <i>My Lord Bag-O\u2019-Rice<\/i>. By 1893, Suzuki was part of Hasegawa\u2019s stable team along with Arai Yoshimune and Mishima Sh\u014ds\u014d. His style is known for his delicate linework and color, especially his use of <i>bokashi<\/i> gradient. In the 1890s, he produced some newspaper illustrations for <i>Hochi Shinbun<\/i> and a print for the English-language book <i>Hana, A Daughter of Japan<\/i> (1904). Despite this success, he worked primarily as a painter. A member of the Japan Art Institute since 1898, he received recognition at the first and third Bunten exhibitions (1907 and 1909, respectively), as well as the 1910 Japanese-British Exposition.","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/project_category\/suzuki\/","name":"Suzuki Kason","slug":"suzuki","taxonomy":"project_category","parent":18,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/project_category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category\/18"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?project_category=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}