YAMAMOTO Kyujin

Native placeTokyo, JPN
Birth1900
Dead placeHiratsuka, Kanagawa, JPN
Died1986

Biography

Yamamoto was born in Tokyo. His real given name was Masayoshi. After graduating from the Japanese-style painting section of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1924, he submitted work to the Shinko-Yamato-e-kai of Matsuoka Eikyu and his followers and won a prize. His art-world reputation was even more firmly established when his work was accepted by the official salons, the Teiten and Bunten. Kyuujin’s style during this period was marked by a feminine grace. After the war, he served as a judge of the Ninten. Disappointed with the conservative nature of the judging there, he joined with Uemura Shoko, Yoshida Kenji and others to found the Sozo-bijyutsu, which developed into the Japanese-style painting section of the Shinseisaku-kyokai and the Soga-kai, in an attempt to create a new kind of painting with an international orientation. His style changed radically during this period, becoming more masculine with bold, tough compositions, perhaps a reflection of the artist’s personal effort to create a new type of Japanese-style painting. Later he returned to a gracefully elegant style and in his later years made traditional paintings based on direct observation of nature. He died in Hiratsuka.

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