Hoshun Yamaguchi1893~1971 山口蓬春

Yamaguchi Hoshun (real name Saburo) was a Japanese-style painter born in Hokkaido in 1893. He entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1915, transferred to the Japanese painting course in 1918, and studied yamato-e under Matsuoka Eikyu. Building on classical Japanese painting traditions while incorporating interpretations of modern French painters such as Braque and Matisse, he established an intellectual and modern “new Japanese painting” style. From 1948 he worked at his home in Hayama overlooking Sagami Bay, and in 1965 he received the Order of Culture, that same year completing the cedar-door painting “Maple” in the Matsu-no-Ma of the Imperial Palace together with his pupil Hashimoto Meiji. He died at his Hayama home in 1971 at the age of 77.