The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin

About the Author

Fukuda Kodojin (1865--1944) was a versatile artist whose talents extended beyond poetry to painting and calligraphy. He created over 700 paintings and calligraphy and his work was favored by influential industrialists and politicians in his time who came together to establish the "Kodojin Society." Largely forgotten after World War II, today he is highly appreciated outside of Japan. This is the most comprehensive publication with more than 100 paintings from public and private collections that has accompanied a special exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Dr. Andreas Marks is the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. From 2008 to 2013 he was the director and chief curator of the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture in California. He has a Ph.D. from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a master's degree in East Asian Art History from the University of Bonn, Germany. A specialist of Japanese woodblock prints, he is the author of eighteen books including Japanese Yokai and Other Supernatural Beings, Japanese Woodblock Prints and Japan Journeys. In 2014, he received the International Ukiyo-e Society Award in recognition of his research and publications, and in 2018 and 2022 he received the book award from the International Fine Print Dealers Association.

With an Essay by Paul Berry, an independent scholar of Japanese art history and cinema. He has taught at University of Michigan, University of Washington, Kansai Gaidai University and lectured internationally at a variety of universities, museums and conferences. His publications include catalogues and articles on Japanese painting including those found in Unexplored Avenues of Japanese Painting, Modern Masters of Kyoto, Literati Modern, and Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art. Soon to appear in a volume of essays on Tomioka Tessai and Otagaki Rengetsu is "Reinventing Oneself: The Artistic Careers of Otagaki Rengetsu" from the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington