Irie Hakō, originally Ikujirō (Japanese:入江波光; 26 September 1887,

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- 9 June 1948, Kyoto) was a Japanese painter in the

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He received his first painting lessons from Morimoto Tōkaku (1877–1947) in 1902. This followed by studies at the Municipal School for Arts and Crafts (now part of the

Kyoto City University of Arts is a public, municipal university of general art and music in Kyoto, Japan. Established in 1880, it is Japan's oldest university of the arts (the predecessor of Tokyo University of the Arts was founded in 1887). Among its faculty and graduates ...

). After graduating in 1907, he worked at the school for two years, then moved to the new City College of Art (now also part of the City University). In 1913, the school sent him to Tokyo to gain experience at the local art schools and the Imperial Museum (now the

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). There, he copied the works of

Katsukawa Shunshō Shunshō Katsukawa ( ja, 勝川春章; 1726 – 19 January 1793) was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the '' ukiyo-e'' style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of M ...

and created a large painting depicting the Great fire of Meireki. In 1918, and

Kagaku Murakami was a Japanese painter and illustrator, noted for his numerous Buddhist subjects and advancement in the techniques of ''nihonga'' (Japanese-style) painting in the early 20th century. Biography He was born in Osaka as Takeda Shinichi. His parents ...

invited him to participate in the exhibitions of the National Artists' Association (). He presented several works at both their second and third exhibitions. In 1922, the city of Kyoto financed a trip to Europe, where he studied the Old Masters in Italy and Spain. Later, the Ministry of Culture assigned him to work at the

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temple in

Nara Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the northwest, Wakayam ...

, copying and helping to restore the murals in the main hall. He started on the project in 1940, but it was still not completed when he died of stomach cancer in 1948.

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* "Irie Hakō" In: ''Kyōto no Nihonga 1910–1930'' (exhibition catalog).

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan. This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). History The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK) was initially created as the Annex Museum of the Nationa ...

, 1986. . * Laurance P. Roberts: "Irie Hakō". In: ''A Dictionary of Japanese Artists''. Weatherhill, 1976. .

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