- Names
- 奥村土牛
- OKUMURA Togyū (index name)
- Okumura Togyū (display name)
- 奥村土牛 (Japanese display name)
- おくむら とぎゅう (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1889-02-18
- Birth place
- Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture
- Date of death
- 1990-09-25
- Death place
- Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Painting
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Okumura Togyū.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/10366.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「奥村土牛」『日本美術年鑑』平成3年版(313-318頁)現代日本画壇の最長老で文化勲章受章者奥村土牛は、9月25日午後6時8分、脳梗塞のため東京都港区の虎の門病院で死去した。享年101。明治22(1889)年2月18日、東京京橋に出版社藍外堂を営む奥村金次郎、たまの長男として生まれ、本名義三。32年日本橋区城東尋常小学校尋常科を卒業し高等科に進むが、病弱のため1年で中退。同38年16才の時、梶田半古の画塾に入門し、塾頭だった小林古径の指導を受ける。翌3...
Wikipedia
Togyū Okumura (奥村 土牛, Okumura Togyū, 18 February 1889 – 25 September 1990) was a famous Japanese modern painter of the Nihonga style of watercolour painting. His original name was Yoshizō (義三). The name Togyū referred to a poem from his father who ran a publishing business.Okumura is characterized by his works which achieve unusual, exquisite quality of colours through the application of the white gofun pigment 100 or 200 times as foundation.
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- 2023-02-20