Jippo Araki1872~1944 荒木十畝

Araki Jippo (1872-1944) was a Japanese-style painter born in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture. In 1892, he moved to Tokyo and studied under Araki Kanpo, becoming his adopted son the following year. He specialized in bird-and-flower paintings with moderate decorativeness and was regarded as a leading figure among traditional Japanese-style painters. He organized the Seiha Doshikai at the founding of the Bunten exhibition in 1907 and became a member of the Imperial Art Academy in 1923 and the Imperial Art Institute in 1937. He received international recognition including a silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and a gold medal at the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition.