Yokoyama Taikan

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Yokoyama Taikan 横山大観

Daruma 達磨



1907 - glue on silk - 148.2×57.2
Adachi Museum of Art
source :　museum.toyota.aichi.jp



Yokoyama Taikan 横山大観
2 November 1868 - 26 February 1958
was the pseudonym of a major figure in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of Nihonga.
His real name was Yokoyama Hidemaro.

Taikan was born in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture, as the eldest son of Sakai Sutehiko, an ex-samurai family in Mito clan. He was adopted into his mother's family, from whom he received the name of "Yokoyama".

In 1889, Taikan enrolled in the first graduating class of the Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō (the predecessor to the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), which had just been opened by Okakura Kakuzō (aka Okakura Tenshin).

Several of Taikan's works has been selected as the subjects of a commemorative postage stamps by the Japanese government.
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