Hirosuke Tasaki1898~1984 田崎広助

Tasaki Hirosuke was a Western-style painter born in Fukuoka Prefecture. After graduating from Fukuoka Normal School in 1917, he studied under Sakamoto Hanjiro and Yasui Sotaro. He went to France in 1932 and won the Salon d’Automne Prize the following year, then participated in founding the Issuikai art group in 1939. He is renowned for his powerful landscapes of Japanese mountains, particularly Mount Aso and Mount Fuji. He received the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1961 and the Order of Culture in 1975.