Insho Domoto1891~1975 堂本印象

Domoto Insho (real name Sannosuke) was a Japanese-style painter born in Kyoto in 1891 and died in 1975. After studying at the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting and making his Teiten debut in 1919, he trained under Nishiyama Suisho and rapidly built a reputation. He worked across traditional nihonga, Buddhist paintings, and large-scale shoheki-ga screen paintings, and was named an Imperial Household Artist and member of the Japan Art Academy. After traveling in Europe in the postwar period, he embraced abstraction and continued evolving his style through his later years. He received the Order of Culture in 1961, and his major works include the murals at Koyasan Konpon Daito and “Glorious Saint Mary” at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osaka.