Ruins of Loulan by Day

Title	Ruins of Loulan by Day
Artist	平山郁夫　HIRAYAMA Ikuo
Date	1990
Medium	color on paper
Dimensions	172.0×364.0
Classification	Japanese-style Paintings
Accession Number	JJ199100003000
Summary	Hirayama participated in the Tokyo University of the Arts’ academic research expedition to ancient sites in the Middle East, as well as in the project to create a reproduction of the murals in the Golden Hall of Horyu-ji Temple, as a member of the Maeda Seison team. Deeply interested in cultural exchange between East and West, he spent his lifetime painting landscapes along the Silk Road. He also devoted himself to the preservation of cultural heritage, calling for the protection of the Mogao Caves in Tunhuang , Gansu Province, China, whose murals were suffering from deterioration, and accompanying Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita on his visit to China, where he helped arrange financial assistance for their preservation.　Loulan was a thriving city west of Tunhuang, located at a junction of the Northern Route of the Tianshan Mountains and the Southern Route of the Western Regions, which skirted the Taklamakan Desert. By the seventh century, it had already fallen into ruin, and in 1900 it was discovered by the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin.

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Native place	Hiroshima, JPN
Birth	1930
Dead place	Tokyo, JPN
Died	2009
Biography	Hirayama was born in Hiroshima. He was there serving on a work brigade when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1952. He studied under Maeda Seison and became an assistant in the department of Japanese-style painting at the university. His work was accepted for the 38th Inten exhibition in 1953, and he continued to exhibit at the Inten. He was troubled with physical problems as a result of his exposure to atomic radiation, and around 1957–58 he began studying Buddhism. He attracted attention with “The Spread of Buddhism” in 1959 and continued to paint works on Buddhist subjects and scenes from the Silk Road, the ancient route of cultural contact between East and West. His original style is characterized by modern decorative qualities. He became a professor at his alma mater in 1973 and worked diligently to train younger artists. He made official copies of the ancient murals in the Takamatsuzuka tomb in Asuka and led a research team from his university to Tunhuang in China, where he also contributed to the preservation and restoration of the Buddhist murals there.

Ruins of Loulan by Day

HIRAYAMA Ikuo