was a
Japanese
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artist
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whose work is featured at the
Yokohama Museum of Art
, founded in 1989, is located in the futurism, futuristic Minato Mirai 21 district of the Japanese city Yokohama, next to the Yokohama Landmark Tower.
The collections
The museum has works by many influential and well-known modern artists includin ...
.
Yokohama Museum of Art: The Collection and Architecture
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He was regarded of one of the fathers of New Nihonga
''Nihonga'' () is a Japanese style of painting that typically uses mineral pigments, and occasionally ink, together with other organic pigments on silk or paper. The term was coined during the Meiji period (1868–1912) to differentiate it from ...
, and is known for he quote to his students "I break the Old Nihonga, You should follow me and build New Nihonga."
See also
* Gyoshū Hayami
was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the ''Nihonga'' style, active during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His real name was Eiichi Maita.
Biography
Gyoshū was born in the plebeian downtown district of Asakusa in Tokyo. He studied tradit ...
References
External links
Yokohama Museum of Art
1880 births
1916 deaths
20th-century Japanese painters
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