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Kawai Gyokudo

Gyokudo was born in what is now Ichinomiya city, Aichi Prefecture, as the eldest son of a paper, ink and brush merchant. He went to Kyoto in 1887 to study under Kono Bairei of the Maruyama-Shijo school of painting. In 1896, he moved to Tokyo and he became the student of Hashimoto Gaho, of the Kano school. He also studied Western-style painting and developed a highly personal style, especially in the field of landscape painting.

Gyokudo is noted for his polychrome and occasionally monochrome works depicting the mountains and rivers of Japan in the four seasons, with humans and animals shown as part of the natural landscape. Among his representative works are Futsuka zuki (“The New Moon”), Yuku haru (“The Departing Spring”), Mine-no-yu (“Evening at the Mountain Top”), and Bosetsu (“Snow in the Evening”).

In 1898, Gyokudo joined with Okakura Tenshin and Yokoyama Taikan to found the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Fine Art Academy). In 1907, Gyokudo was selected as a judge for the first annual Bunten Exhibition. He became a teacher at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkō (the forerunner of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 1919.

In 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture by the Japanese government.

Most of his works are preserved and displayed at the Gyokudo Art Museum, in Ome, Tokyo.

 

  

Kanoh HOHGAI

 Gaho HASHIMOTO

Bairei KONO

Keinen IMAO

Hobun KIKUCHI

Seiho TAKEUCHI

Taikan YOKOYAMA

Shunkyo YAMAMOTO

Gyokudo KAWAI

Kanzan SHIMOMURA

Shunso HISHIDA

 
 

Shoen UEMURA

Nishimura GOUN

Hyakusui HIRAFUKU

 Kiyokata KABURAKI

Kansetsu HASHIMOTO

Seison MAEDA

Shinsui  ITO

Kayo YAMAGUCHI

Kaii HIGASHIYAMA

Shoko UEMURA

 

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