was a Japanese sculptor who exerted himself for the modernization of wood carving and a professor of

Tokyo School of Fine Arts or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter- ...

, who dedicated himself to the education of the future generations.高村光雲 (Takamura Kōun) Kotobank (Japanese)
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Life and career

Born in Tokyo as Nakajima Kōzō, he created the bronze statue of

Saigō Takamori Saigō Takamori (; 23 January 1828 – 24 September 1877) was a Japanese samurai and politician who was one of the most influential figures in Japanese history. He played a key role in the Meiji Restoration, which overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate ...

, completed in 1898, which stands in

Ueno Park is a spacious public park in the Ueno, Tokyo, Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the Buddhist temples in Japan, temple of Kan'ei-ji. Amongst the country's first public parks, i ...

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. He is also the author of the statue of

Kusunoki Masahige , or , was a Japanese military commander and samurai of the Kamakura period remembered as the ideal loyal samurai. Kusunoki fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in the Genkō War to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate and restore power in Japan to the I ...

which stands in front of the

Tokyo Imperial Palace is the main residence of the Emperor of Japan. It is a large park-like area located in the Chiyoda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda district of the Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda ward of Tokyo and contains several buildings including the where the Emperor h ...

. He studied under Takmura Tōun (高村東雲), a sculptor of Buddhist statues, whose elder sister became Kōun's adoptive parent. He was the father of the poet and sculptor

Kōtarō Takamura was a Japanese poet and sculptor. Biography Takamura was the eldest son of Japanese sculptor Takamura Kōun. He graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1902, where he studied sculpture and oil painting. He studied in New York, at the ...

. One of his representative works is "Aged Monkey" (Rōen)."Aged Monkey" (Rōen) By Takamura Koun｜NHK WORLD The Magic of Japanese Masterpieces
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1852 births 1934 deaths 19th-century Japanese sculptors Imperial household artists Japanese sculptors Japanese woodcarvers Artists from Tokyo Metropolis {{Asia-sculptor-stub