Sotaro Yasui

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Bust of Sotario Yasui at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Bust of Sotario Yasui at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Sotaro Yasui (安井 曾太郎 Yasui Sotarō?, 17 May 1888 in Kyoto - 14 December 1955 in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture) was a Japanese painter, most notable for his portraits and his ability to draw and paint in a more Western style.

Yasui studied painting under Asai Chu (浅井忠) at the Shogoin Yoga Kenkyujo and Kansai Fine Art Academy. At nineteen he moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens, from 1907 to 1914.

A year after returning to Japan, in 1915, he made his debut at the Nikakai (Second Division Society) exhibition, where he exhibited forty-four paintings he had made in Paris.

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