Shimomura Kanzan
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Shimomura Kanzan (下村観山, b. 10th April 1873, d. 10th May 1930) was a Japanese painter. He was active from the Meiji through to the early Showa era, and practised the nihonga watercolor style.
Shimomura was born in 1873 in the prefectural capital of Wakayama city. Having moved to Tokyo at the age of eight, he studied under Kanō Hōgai, and after Hōgai's death, under Hashimoto Gahō. He graduated first in his class at the Tokyo Art School (now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). He was a teacher at the same institution, and in the action that accompanied Okakura Tenshin's leaving government service, he participated in establishing the Japan Art Institute with Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Shunso.
[edit] Notable works
- 光明皇后 （1897, Imperial Household Agency, sannomaru shozokan）
- 修羅道 （1900, Tokyo National Museum）
- 鵜鴎図 （1901, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga）
- ダイオゼニス （"Diogenes", 1903, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art）
- 木の間の秋 （1907, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, object of national cultural signficance status)
- 大原御幸 （1908, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art）
- 鵜図屏風 （1912, Tokyo National Museum）
- 白狐 （1914, Tokyo National Museum）
- 弱法師 （1915, Tokyo National Museum, object of national cultural significance status)
- 春雨 （1916, Tokyo National Museum）
- 楠公 （1921, Tokyo National Museum）
- 景雲餘彩 （1922, Imperial Household Agency, sannomaru shozokan）
