Shima Tamami was active for about a decade as a printmaker, with much of her work being produced between 1959 and 1962. Having graduated from the Women's College of Fine Arts, Tokyo in 1958, she became a member of the Women's Print Association (Jōryū Hanga Kyōkai) in 1959, her prints shown in their fourth exhibition at Toyoko Department Store, Shibuya, Tokyo. She received a travel grant from the College Women's Association on Japan, and that year her work "Birds B" was included in James Michener's "The Modern Japanese Print" by James A. Michener (ed. 381/510 in LACMA collection M.78.122.47a-j). She moved to the United States after marrying in the early 1960s, and her output of prints virtually disappears after about 1965. Of her work, she speaks of taking birds as "still-life subjects". For further information, see https://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/sosaku_hanga/shima_tamami.html. Accessed 11/3/22.