Japan Art and Kato Tetsunosuke 

Japan Art and Kato Tetsunosuke 

Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

The Japanese artist Kato Tetsunosuke remains a figure glimpsed only in half-light. Active between roughly 1925 and 1950, his name survives not through biography or manifesto, but through scattered impressions—minor references preserved largely in English-language sources, like footprints left in snow and slowly softened by time.

He is thought to have been born during the Meiji period, a generation shaped by transition...