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Japanese artist

In this Japanese name, the surname is Kitaoka.

Kitaoka Fumio (北岡 文雄, 1918 – April 23, 2007) was a Japanese artist.

He was trained in oil painting, and later became interested in woodblock printing.

Biography

Born in Tokyo in 1918, Kitaoka studied oil painting with Fujishima Takeji at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts from 1936 to 1941.

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In his third and fourth years, he was instructed in woodblock printing by Un'ichi Hiratsuka. Following his graduation he worked as an art teacher in Tokyo, until 1945, when he was sent to occupied Manchuria to work with the Japanese government's Northeast Asia Culture Development Society.

While in Manchuria, he became interested in contemporary social-realist Chinese monochrome prints, and was inspired to create his 1947 print series Sōkokue no tabi ("Repatriation"), chronicling his difficult journey home to Japan.^[1]

After his return, he began to attend evening classes with the influential Sōsaku-