Menu

Koukei Tsuruya

March 1980
Media
First Solo Exhibition of a Rookie Woodblock Artist
The Yomiuri Shimbun (art)

June 1982
Media
Introducing Tsuruya Koukei
NHK TV (Hogaku Hyakusen)

July 1983
Media
Mystery Artist Is a Former Salaryman
The Tokyo Shimbun (entertainment)

August 1984
Media
Modernizing Actor Prints
The Yomiuri Shimbun (techo)

Media
Art Dealer Robert Sawers Promotes Koukei the Modern Sharaku
The Nikkei (Ningen Hakken)

May 1987
Media
Aiming to Be a Modern Sharaku
NHK TV

April 1988
Media
Print-maker Specializes in Okubi-e
The Japan Times (ARTS)

Media
Art Book "Tsuruya Kokei: Kabuki Actor Prints"
The Yomiuri Shimbun (review)

October 1988
Media
True Face of the Artist of the Red-hot Exhibition "Kabuki Actor Woodblock Prints"
Focus (for sale)

November 1988
Media
This Is a Work by the Mysterious Ukiyo-e Artist
The Sankei Shimbun

December 1987
Media
Tsuruya Koukei's Actor Prints Attract the British Museum
Pia (Pia News Network)

March 1989
Media
Mysterious Ukiyo-e Artist Sharaku and Tsuruya Koukei
THE GOLD (ART)

August 1994
Media
A Mega-selling Artist Tsuruya Koukei
Nikkei Art

February 2019
Media
Dialogue lecture with students of the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach

December 2019
Media
The Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight (a Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism) gave an honorable mention of 2019 to the exhibition "Tsuruya Koukei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited"