Fujishima Takeji

Fujishima Takeji was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yga art movement in late 19th and early 20thcentury Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

Fujishima was born to an exsamurai class household in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain in southern Kysh, Japan, where his father had been a retainer of the Shimazu clan daimy. After studying art at Kagoshima Middle School he left home in 1884 to pursue his studies in Tokyo, first with Kawabata Gyokusho, a Shij school nihonga artist. However, Fujishima was attracted to the new westernstyle oil painting techniques, and switched to ygastyle painting, which he learned under Yamamoto Hsui and Soyama Yukihiro. His graduation piece, Cruelty was exhibited at the 3rd Meiji Art Association Exhibition in 1891, where it was viewed by noted novelist and art critic Mori gai.

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