KATSUYUKI NISHIJIMA was born in 1945 in Yamaguchi Province of Japan. From 1964 to 1968 he studied the art of Woodblock Prints in the studio of the Mikumo publishing house in Kyoto as well as exhibiting his work with the Kyoto independent artists and in solo displays. From 1972 he focused his immense talents on limited edition woodblocks using traditional old buildings as his main subject matter. Katsuyuki Nishijima is now based Kyoto and his woodblocks come in a number of formats, the larger sizes are almost always limited editions of 500, all hand signed, titled and numbered but normally never dated. His smaller sized woodblocks are hand signed and titled and open editions, again not dated.