Jun Yamagishi1930~2000 山岸純

Yamagishi Jun was a Japanese-style painter and member of the Japan Art Academy, born on September 14, 1930. He graduated from the Japanese painting course of Kyoto City University of Arts in 1953 and completed its advanced course in 1955, studying under Tokuoka Shinsen. He won the Kyoto Mayor's Prize at the Kyoten exhibition in 1956 and 1957, and at the Nitten exhibition received special selection and Hakuju prizes for "Tree" (1961) and "Stone Steps" (1965), the Minister of Education Prize for "Sound of Wind" (1975), and the Japan Art Academy Prize for "Song of Trees" (1992). He became a professor at Kyoto City University of Arts in 1975, professor emeritus there in 1996, and was appointed professor at Nagoya University of the Arts in 1997, before being elected a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1999. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Kyoto on December 17, 2000.