Woodblock. Born 1957 Hiroshima. Sokei Academy of Fine Arts.
Permanent Collections: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Israel; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum of Art; Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima; Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery. Exhibited in Taiwan, Czechoslovakia, and awarded Grand Prize at the AGART World Print Festival in Slovenia 1998.

Kinoshita's compositions are mainly flowers or Japanese landscape scenery. Kinoshita's prints are woodblock prints, but his technique is unusual in that he uses a process (known as concavo-convex) similar to the collagraph process. For a start, he uses the rough surface of the back side of the woodblock. This means he can incorporate various patterns such as knots, wood grains, and joints, as part of the imagery in his works. Sometimes, texture is created on the surface of the block by using a patty or gesso. By dropping undiluted varnish directly on the block, an image of water drops or other fluid expressions is possible. In contrast to a woodblock technique, fine lines are then cut into the block to give the impression of a drawing. The intaglio method is then used for printing the image, i.e. the block is inked and then wiped, so that the ink is held only in the groves. To transfer the image from the block to the paper, a woodblock press is used to apply an even pressure. Every process has to be handled swiftly so that the paints do not dry up.