was a Japanese artist. Little is known about him, except that he worked with the Kyoto City publisher Happōdō.Honolulu Museum of Art He rejected the Western concept that art was an expression of the artist's individuality. Rather, he embraced the traditional method of producing woodblock prints through the cooperation of a designer (artist), a woodblock carver, a printer, and a publisher.Honolulu Museum of Art, wall label for The Graphic Design of Kojima Gyokuhō, January 10, 2019 - March 10, 2019Michener, James A., The Floating World, Random House, New York, 1954, p. 148 He also favored traditional Japanese subjects, such as Japanese textiles, kabuki, and ukiyo-e masterpieces.Honolulu Museum of Art, wall label for The Graphic Design of Kojima Gyokuhō, January 10, 2019 - March 10, 2019
Prints Kojima is best known for his series One Hundred Poetry Illustrations. It consists of 50 woodblock prints. Each print is about a traditional Japanese poem. The series were published by Kondo Happodo in Kyoto in 1932. For the prints he used metallic pigments, gofun, and embossing.
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