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54 artists whose works are in the collection.

Sesshu Toyo
1420–1506 · 2 works
A Zen monk and ink painter of the Muromachi period. He crossed to Ming China, learned painting methods at their source, and painted the landscapes of Japan with a forceful brush. Many of his works are designated National Treasures, including "Autumn and Winter Landscapes" and "View of Amanohashidate."
Hasegawa Tohaku
1539–1610 · 1 works
A painter who came from Nanao in Noto to Kyoto and was active in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He painted widely, from gold-and-blue wall paintings to ink paintings. "Pine Forest" at the Tokyo National Museum is a National Treasure.
El Greco
1541–1614 · 1 works
A painter born on the Greek island of Crete who worked in Toledo, Spain. He painted religious subjects with elongated figures and flickering light and color. The Ohara Museum of Art holds his "The Annunciation."
Kano Mitsunobu
1565–1608 · 1 works
A painter of the Kano school in the Momoyama period. The eldest son of Kano Eitoku, he led the Kano school after his father's death and took on work for the Toyotomi and Tokugawa. In contrast to his father's powerful manner, he is known for a delicate, gentle style.
Carlo Dolci
1616–1687 · 1 works
A 17th-century painter of Florence, Italy. A deeply devout man, he painstakingly painted the Virgin and saints with smooth skin and clear colors. The National Museum of Western Art holds his "Mater dolorosa."
Kusumi Morikage
Dates unknown (active in the 17th century) · 1 works
A painter of the early Edo period. He studied under Kano Tanyu and was counted one of the Four Heavenly Kings of his school, and later painted village life with warmth. "Cooling Off" at the Tokyo National Museum is a National Treasure.
Tawaraya Sotatsu
Dates unknown (active in the first half of the 17th century) · 1 works
A painter of Kyoto in the early Edo period. He ran the painting shop Tawaraya and, in collaborations with Hon'ami Koetsu and others, remade yamato-e with bold compositions. Known for the "Wind God and Thunder God" screens, he is regarded as the founder of the Rinpa school.
Ogata Korin
1658–1716 · 3 works
A Kyoto painter of the mid-Edo period. He studied Tawaraya Sotatsu and painted gorgeous decorative pictures that place clean forms and colors on gold grounds. "Irises" and "Red and White Plum Blossoms" screens are National Treasures.
In Genryo
1718–1767 · 1 works
A leading court painter of the Ryukyu Kingdom in the 18th century. Also known as Zamami Yosho, he excelled at Chinese-style bird-and-flower painting. His best-known works include "Pheasant in the Snow" and "Divine Cat."
Maruyama Okyo
1733–1795 · 1 works
A painter active in Kyoto in the mid-Edo period. He valued shasei, painting from careful observation of real things, and founded the Maruyama school, training many pupils. "Pine Trees in the Snow" at the Mitsui Memorial Museum is a National Treasure.
Satake Shozan
1748–1785 · 1 works
The eighth lord of the Akita domain in the mid-Edo period, a daimyo painter who himself painted in the Western-influenced Akita ranga style. He wrote Gaho Koryo and Gazu Rikai, regarded as the first Western-style art theory written in Japan.
Odano Naotake
1750–1780 · 1 works
A samurai of the Akita domain in the mid-Edo period and the leading painter of Akita ranga. He learned Western painting methods from Hiraga Gennai and also drew the illustrations for Kaitai Shinsho. His best-known work, "Shinobazu Pond," is an Important Cultural Property.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
1755–1842 · 1 works
A French portrait painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She made her name with portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette and, after the Revolution, was active at courts across Europe. The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum holds her "Princess Youssoupoff."
Katsushika Hokusai
1760–1849 · 49 works
A late Edo-period ukiyo-e artist who kept painting for about 70 years, until his death at 90 by traditional Japanese reckoning. Known for Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and the Hokusai Manga, his bold compositions and keen observation influenced painters abroad.
Kakizaki Hakyo
1764–1826 · 1 works
A senior retainer (karo) of the Matsumae domain in the late Edo period, who is also renowned as a painter. His best-known work is "Ishu Retsuzo" (Portraits of Ainu Chiefs), and he also left bird-and-flower paintings and figure paintings he studied under Maruyama Okyo in Kyoto.
Keisai Eisen
1791–1848 · 24 works
A late Edo-period ukiyo-e artist. He won popularity for his sensual, commanding portraits of beautiful women and, during the Tenpo era, devoted himself to landscape prints as well. He designed the first print of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido, which he shared with Utagawa Hiroshige, beginning at Nihonbashi.
Watanabe Kazan
1793–1841 · 1 works
A painter of the late Edo period and a senior retainer (karo) of the Tahara domain in Mikawa Province (now Tahara, Aichi Prefecture). He painted realistic portraits that adopted the shading of Western painting. "The Scholar Takami Senseki" is a National Treasure.
Utagawa Hiroshige
1797–1858 · 289 works
A late Edo-period ukiyo-e artist. He became a popular master of meisho-e (famous-place landscape prints) with the Hoeido edition of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, and went on to leave many landscapes filled with the feel of weather and the seasons, through to his late series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
Utagawa Sadahide
Born 1807; died in the early Meiji period (1870s; the exact year is disputed) · 1 works
An ukiyo-e artist active from the end of the Edo period into early Meiji. Using the name Gountei, he is known for Yokohama-e depicting the newly opened port of Yokohama and for bird's-eye views that look down on wide stretches of land as if from the air.
Jean-François Millet
1814–1875 · 1 works
A 19th-century French painter. He lived in the village of Barbizon outside Paris and painted farmers at work in the fields in plain, weighty compositions. The Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art holds his "The Sower."
Gustave Courbet
1819–1877 · 1 works
A 19th-century French Realist painter. Rather than myth or history, he sought to paint the people and nature before his eyes just as they were. The National Museum of Western Art holds his "Waves," a picture of a stormy sea.
Hirasawa Byozan
1822–1876 · 1 works
A painter based in Hakodate from the end of the Edo period into the early Meiji era, who painted many scenes of Ainu life and ritual. Regarded as one of the leading Ainu-e artists, his works survive in large numbers in Japan and in museums in Europe and America.
Utagawa Hiroshige II
1826–1869 · 1 works
An ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo (Bakumatsu) and early Meiji periods. A pupil of the first Utagawa Hiroshige, he took the name Hiroshige II the year after his teacher died. He added "Akasaka Kiribatake in Rain at Dusk" to One Hundred Famous Views of Edo after his master's death.
Kano Hogai
1828–1888 · 1 works
A Nihonga painter born into a family of official painters of the Chofu domain (now Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture). Though impoverished in the Meiji era, he explored a new Nihonga with Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin. His last work, "Merciful Mother Kannon," is an Important Cultural Property.
Takahashi Yuichi
1828–1894 · 2 works
A Western-style painter born in Edo. At the end of the Edo period he was struck by the lifelike quality of Western lithographs and resolved to paint in oils, becoming one of Japan's earliest serious Western-style painters. "Salmon" at the Tokyo University of the Arts is an Important Cultural Property.
Édouard Manet
1832–1883 · 1 works
A 19th-century Parisian painter. He boldly painted the people of the contemporary city in flat compositions of strong light and dark, and was admired by the young Impressionists. The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum holds his "The Promenade (Madame Gamby)."
Paul Cézanne
1839–1906 · 1 works
A painter from Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. He explored a way of rebuilding nature and objects from firm forms and planes of color, which greatly influenced 20th-century painting. The Artizon Museum holds his work.
Claude Monet
1840–1926 · 3 works
A leading painter of French Impressionism. He pursued the shifting of light and air in series on a single subject, and in his later years kept painting the water lilies of his garden at Giverny. In Japan his works can be seen at places such as the National Museum of Western Art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841–1919 · 3 works
A painter of French Impressionism. He painted bright scenes of people gathering, and women and children with soft skin, in warm colors. In Japan his works are held by the National Museum of Western Art, the Artizon Museum, the Pola Museum of Art, and others.
Paul Gauguin
1848–1903 · 3 works
A French painter. He turned from stockbroker to artist and, in Brittany and Tahiti, painted pictures of flat areas of color with clear outlines. In Japan his works can be seen at the National Museum of Western Art and the Ohara Museum of Art.
Vincent van Gogh
1853–1890 · 4 works
A painter from the Netherlands. In a career of about ten years he painted landscapes and still lifes with swirling brushwork and intense color. He learned deeply from ukiyo-e, and in Japan his "Sunflowers" can be seen at the Sompo Museum of Art, among other works.
Giovanni Segantini
1858–1899 · 1 works
A painter who worked in the high Alps in the late 19th century. Setting fine strokes side by side without mixing colors, he painted clear mountain light and the lives of herdsmen. The Ohara Museum of Art holds his "High Noon in the Alps."
Gustav Klimt
1862–1918 · 1 works
A leading painter of Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. He served as the first president of the Vienna Secession and painted figures in decorative compositions using gold leaf. The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art holds his "Life is a Struggle (Golden Rider)."
Kuroda Seiki
1866–1924 · 1 works
A Western-style painter from Kagoshima. He brought to Japan the bright plein-air expression he learned in France and trained many painters at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. "Lakeside" at the Tokyo National Museum is an Important Cultural Property.
Pierre Bonnard
1867–1947 · 1 works
A French painter. In his youth he worked as a member of the Nabis, with flat compositions learned from ukiyo-e, and later painted interiors, gardens, and his family in overflowing color. The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art holds his "Child and Cats."
Fujishima Takeji
1867–1943 · 1 works
A Western-style painter from Kagoshima. He taught for many years at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and combined the Western techniques he learned abroad with Japanese decorative sensibility. "The Black Fan," painted in Rome, is an Important Cultural Property.
Yokoyama Taikan
1868–1958 · 3 works
A Nihonga painter from Mito. Under Okakura Tenshin he sought a new Nihonga, and is known for the "moroto" style that softens outlines and for his paintings of Mount Fuji. The 40-meter "Metempsychosis" is an Important Cultural Property.
Okada Saburosuke
1869–1939 · 3 works
A Western-style painter born in Saga. He studied under Kuroda Seiki and, after studying in France, was called "Okada of the beauty pictures" for his dignified, graceful portraits of women. He received the first Order of Culture in 1937.
Hayashi Takejiro
1871–1941 · 1 works
A Western-style painter who taught art in Sapporo from the Meiji era into the early Showa period. His "Morning Prayer," showing a family at prayer, is regarded as an early masterpiece among oil paintings made in Hokkaido.
Uemura Shoen
1875–1949 · 1 works
A Nihonga painter born in Kyoto. She made elegant, dignified women her lifelong subject, and in 1948 (Showa 23) became the first woman to receive the Order of Culture.
Hirafuku Hyakusui
1877–1933 · 1 works
A Nihonga painter from Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture. He valued sketching from close observation of nature and brought fresh air to Nihonga from the Meiji era into early Showa. He is also known as a tanka poet of the Araragi school.
Kojima Torajiro
1881–1929 · 1 works
A Western-style painter from Nariwa, Okayama Prefecture. Supported by the businessman Ohara Magosaburo, he studied in Europe and collected on the spot the works that became the foundation of the Ohara Museum of Art's Western painting collection.
Aoki Shigeru
1882–1911 · 1 works
A Western-style painter from Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. He painted Romantic works inspired by Japanese myth and antiquity and died at 28. "Bounty of the Sea," painted on the sea of Boso, is an Important Cultural Property.
Wada Sanzo
1883–1967 · 1 works
A Western-style painter born in Ikuno, Hyogo Prefecture. At the first Bunten in 1907 (Meiji 40) his "South Wind" won the top prize, and he later left achievements in color research and in color design for film.
Kawase Hasui
1883–1957 · 5 works
A woodblock print artist active from the Taisho into the Showa era, and one of the leading figures of shin-hanga. Known for snow, rain, and night scenes drawn on travels across Japan, he is also called the "poet of travel."
Yorozu Tetsugoro
1885–1927 · 3 works
A Western-style painter from Iwate Prefecture. In "Nude Beauty," his graduation work at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, he put forward expression through strong color and simple form, becoming a pioneer of avant-garde painting in Japan.
Nakamura Tsune
1887–1924 · 1 works
A Western-style painter from Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. Fighting illness, he painted portraits at the Nakamuraya in Shinjuku and at his studio in Shimo-Ochiai. "Portrait of Vasilii Eroshenko" at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, is an Important Cultural Property.
Tsuchida Bakusen
1887–1936 · 1 works
A Nihonga painter from Sado, Niigata Prefecture. He studied in Kyoto under Takeuchi Seiho and founded the Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai, aiming for a new Nihonga that also took in the forms of Western painting.
Murakami Kagaku
1888–1939 · 1 works
A Nihonga painter born in Osaka who was based in Kyoto and Kobe. He joined the founding of the Kokuga Sosaku Kyokai and in his last years painted Buddhist figures and mountains with deep spirituality.
Yasui Sotaro
1888–1955 · 1 works
A Kyoto-born painter who, with Umehara Ryuzaburo, represented Western-style painting in the Showa era. Using firm forms learned from Cezanne and bright colors suited to Japan's climate, he painted portraits and landscapes.
Kishida Ryusei
1891–1929 · 3 works
A Western-style painter born in Ginza, Tokyo. With a realism that painted down to the smallest detail, he made portraits of his daughter Reiko and painted roads in the Tokyo suburbs. "Road Cut through a Hill" at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, is an Important Cultural Property.
Sekine Shoji
1899–1919 · 1 works
A Western-style painter born in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture. He drew attention at the Nika exhibition in the Taisho era but died at 20. Known for dreamlike works built on strong reds, his "Sorrow of Faith" is an Important Cultural Property.
Migishi Kotaro
1903–1934 · 1 works
A Sapporo-born Western-style painter who represented early Showa modernism. In a short life of 31 years he changed styles one after another, and in his last years he left dreamlike works of butterflies and shells.
Matsumoto Shunsuke
1912–1948 · 1 works
A Western-style painter who grew up in Iwate and painted the streets and people of Tokyo in quiet tones. He is also known for "Living Painters," an essay he published in 1941 in resistance to military interference in art.

Artists

Sesshu Toyo

Hasegawa Tohaku

El Greco

Kano Mitsunobu

Carlo Dolci

Kusumi Morikage

Tawaraya Sotatsu

Ogata Korin

In Genryo

Maruyama Okyo

Satake Shozan

Odano Naotake

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Katsushika Hokusai

Kakizaki Hakyo

Keisai Eisen

Watanabe Kazan

Utagawa Hiroshige

Utagawa Sadahide

Jean-François Millet

Gustave Courbet

Hirasawa Byozan

Utagawa Hiroshige II

Kano Hogai

Takahashi Yuichi

Édouard Manet

Paul Cézanne

Claude Monet

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paul Gauguin

Vincent van Gogh

Giovanni Segantini

Gustav Klimt

Kuroda Seiki

Pierre Bonnard

Fujishima Takeji

Yokoyama Taikan

Okada Saburosuke

Hayashi Takejiro

Uemura Shoen

Hirafuku Hyakusui

Kojima Torajiro

Aoki Shigeru

Wada Sanzo

Kawase Hasui

Yorozu Tetsugoro

Nakamura Tsune

Tsuchida Bakusen

Murakami Kagaku

Yasui Sotaro

Kishida Ryusei

Sekine Shoji

Migishi Kotaro

Matsumoto Shunsuke