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N° 1 Takanori Oguiss Documented profile
Takanori Oguiss, a Japanese painter born in 1901 and who died in 1986, is notably associated with a body of work shown in Europe and Japan. His works have been shown in numerous exhi…
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N° 2 Kumi Sugai Documented profile
The Japanese painter, sculptor and printmaker Kumi Sugai (also transcribed as Kumi Sugaï) was born and died in Kobe, in 1919 and 1996. Her practice also includes printmaking, which i…
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N° 3 Tsuguharu Foujita Documented profile
Ivory grounds and delicate black outlines give the paintings of Tsugouharu Foujita (1886–1968) their distinctive character. The Japanese artist studied Western painting at the Tokyo…
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N° 4 Shōichi Hasegawa Documented profile
The Japanese painter and printmaker Shōichi Hasegawa (1929–2023) developed an abstract body of work that brings together East Asian calligraphy, the traditional symbolism of forms an…
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N° 5 Toshimitsu Imai Documented profile
The career of Toshimitsu Imaï, a Japanese painter born and deceased in Kyoto, is marked by a shift from painting close to Fauvism to abstraction, followed by the return of traditiona…
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N° 6 Yoshitoshi Documented profile
Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), also known as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, renews Japanese printmaking during the transition from the Edo period to the Meiji era. A pupil of Kuniyoshi, he moves from…
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N° 7 Domoto Hisao Documented profile
Hisao Dōmoto, born in 1928, began with Japanese nihonga painting before turning to oil and abstraction. Trained in Kyoto, he accompanied his uncle Inshō to Europe in 1952, then moved…
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N° 8 Jun'ichi Dobashi Documented profile
Japanese abstract painter Jun’ichi Dobashi lived in Paris from 1953 to 1969. On March 15, 1960, he was among the Japanese figures present during Shotaro Akiyama’s visit to Pierre Sou…
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N° 9 Kiyoshi Hasegawa Documented profile
Hasegawa Kiyoshi was a Japanese painter and printmaker, born in Yokohama in 1891, who died in Paris in 1980. Based in Paris from 1919, he employed several printmaking processes, incl…
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N° 10 Tadashi Asoma Documented profile
Japanese painter Tadashi Asoma, born in 1923 and deceased in 2017, followed a path that took him from Japan to Paris and then to New York. In 1958, the Japanese government awarded hi…
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N° 11 Toyohara Kunichika Documented profile
Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900), a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada, made kabuki theatre a major subject of his prints. He helped popularise the actor triptych during the Meiji period. A por…
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N° 12 Hiroshi Sugito Documented profile
Born in Nagoya in 1970, Hiroshi Sugito is a Japanese painter who graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1993. The source also describes him as a former…
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N° 13 Isao Utsumiya Documented profile
Isao Utsumiya, born in Morioka in 1945, is a Japanese artist who settled in France in 1967, the year he graduated from Musashino Art University. Soon after arriving, he became known…
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N° 14 Tadashi Kawamata Documented profile
Tadashi Kawamata, born in 1953 on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. His participation in the 1982 Venice Biennale launched his international r…
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N° 15 Aki Kuroda Documented profile
Born in Kyoto in 1944, Aki Kuroda settled in France in 1970 after growing up in a Japanese artistic environment. Painting provides a starting point for a practice extending into scul…
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N° 16 Eisaku Wada Documented profile
The Japanese painter Eisaku Wada, born in 1874 and deceased in 1959, trained in Western painting under Uesugi Kumatsu, then at the Daikōkan School with Soyama Sachihiko. From 1894, h…
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N° 17 Keizo Morishita Documented profile
Settling in Milan in 1963 to study art, Keizo Morishita attended Marino Marini’s classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera on a scholarship, graduating in 1968. Although he spe…
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N° 18 Morita Shiryu Documented profile
Shiryū Morita (1912–1998), a Japanese calligrapher trained by Ueda Sōkyū, brought writing into dialogue with international abstraction. He launched the journal Bokubi in Kyoto in 195…
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N° 19 Suzuki Harunobu Documented profile
Suzuki Harunobu was a Japanese print designer active in eighteenth-century Edo who died in 1770. Associated with ukiyo-e, he played a major role in the development of nishiki-e, the…
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N° 20 Gen'ichirō Inokuma Documented profile
Genichiro Inokuma trained in Tokyo with Takeji Fujishima and helped establish the Shinseisaku-ha Kyokai. His early figurative paintings give familiar objects an important role: fruit…
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N° 21 Hosoda Eishi Documented profile
Born into a samurai family in Edo, Chōbunsai Eishi trained in the Kanō tradition before devoting himself to painting and prints of the floating world. He relinquished his samurai ran…
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N° 22 Kazuo Shiraga Documented profile
Kazuo Shiraga was among the artists who made the body a decisive tool of postwar Japanese painting. As a member of Gutai, he sought to renew the relationship between action and mater…
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N° 23 Ohara Koson Documented profile
Known as Koson, Ohara Matao (1877–1945) devoted much of his print production to kachō-e, the genre of bird-and-flower imagery. He initially worked with publishers Akiyama Buemon and…
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N° 24 Sadamasa Motonaga Documented profile
Sadamasa Motonaga helped renew Japanese art through the Gutai group, which he joined in 1955. His enthusiasm for manga and animated forms informed an often playful abstraction. He ex…
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N° 25 Tadaaki Kuwayama Documented profile
Japanese painter Tadaaki Kuwayama (桑山 忠明), born in 1932, graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1958. His name is also given as Kuwayama Tadaaki. After graduating, he left fo…
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N° 26 Takesada Matsutani Documented profile
Takesada Matsutani, born in Osaka in 1937, is a Japanese painter, printmaker and installation artist. After early investigations combining nihonga painting, Surrealism and abstractio…
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N° 27 Toshinobu Onosato Documented profile
Toshinobu Onosato (1912–1986) was a Japanese painter whose work explored geometric abstraction. Based in Kiryū from childhood, he studied with Seifū Tsuda from 1931 to 1934 and found…
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N° 28 Yoshitomo Nara Documented profile
Born in Hirosaki in 1959, Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist whose childlike figures move between defiance, unease and melancholy. Their apparent simplicity opens a space for inner…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026