Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 1877; died 1970.
Painter, calligrapher.
Shunkai Bundo was a monk of the Buddhist Tendai sect and a member of the Japan Art Academy.
New York, 27 April 1994: Universal Brotherhood and International Peace (hanging scroll in a casket of wood, ink on paper...
Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 21 January 1930, in Chiba.
Painter. Landscapes.
Goto Sumio was the son of a priest at a Buddhist temple at Sekiyado. In 1943 he started his preparation to become a monk. In 1945 he began to learn painting under Yamamoto Kyujin, and in ...
Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 1895, in Kyushu; died 1933.
Painter, poet.
Koga Harue trained as a Buddhist monk, subsequently becoming a poet and then a painter. Influenced by Paul Klee and Giorgio de Chirico, he played an important role in the development of early 20th-century Japanese painting, introducing echoes of the modernist movements in Europe, such as cubism, futurism, constructivism and especially surrealism, which he can be said to represent. His pictures from the late 1920s are full of unusual and bizarre figuration. He exhibited regularly at the Nika (two disciplines - sculpture and painting) Salon and was selected for the 4th Nikakai Exhibition in ...
Japanese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1950.
Painter (including gouache).
Koso Mitsutaka studied Buddhist religion and philosophy. In 1984 he went to continue his studies in Europe. He exhibits regularly in Japan. In France he has exhibited at the Salon de Réalités Nouvelles and the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, while he has also exhibited in Luxembourg, in the Salon de Printemps....
Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 1923, in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Sculptor. Monuments.
Nagare Masayuki began his studies under the aegis of a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto. He subsequently took courses in applied traditional arts at Ritsumeikan University in Japan and became an apprentice to a sword manufacturer. He produced many sculptures for public places in Japan and the USA, notably in New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis....
Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 1894, in Shizuoka (Kyuchu Island).
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects.
Sawada Masahiro obtained a diploma from the department of sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo. He specialised in Buddhist sculpture working mainly for the temples. From 1921 his work appeared in many group and individual exhibitions in Tokyo....
Taiwanese, 20th century, female.
Active in Belgium.
Painter.
Su Tao produces sensitive paintings steeped in Buddhist and Zen philosophy, featuring cross-like brush strokes, on rice paper. She held a solo exhibition in Waterloo in 1991.
Japanese, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 19 March 1852, in Edo (Tokyo); died 10 October 1934, in Tokyo.
Sculptor. Buddhist subjects. Wood carving, bronze and metalwork.
Takamura Koun exhibited in Paris including at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where he received a bronze medal. He sought to preserve the art of traditional Japanese wood carving....
