(b Kurume, 18 June 1895; d Tokyo, 10 Sept 1933). Japanese painter. After leaving school in 1912, he went to Tokyo to study at the Taiheiyo Painting Study Centre and the Japanese Watercolour Study Centre. He painted in watercolour until 1918, when he began to paint in oils also. His early interest in C?zanne developed into Cubism. In Kannon (1921; Tokyo, N. Mus. Mod. A.), a Cubist technique is used in a work composed of both realistic and non-realistic images. In 1922 he received the Nika Prize for Burial (1922; Kyoto, Chion'in), which is in the manner of Andr? Lh?te's work, and he was one of those who founded the avant-garde group Action.
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