Junsaku Koizumi1924~2012 小泉淳作

Koizumi Junsaku (October 26, 1924 – January 9, 2012) was a Japanese-style (Nihonga) painter and ceramic artist born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was the seventh son of the politician Koizumi Sakutaro, and his younger brother was the actor Koizumi Hiroshi. After leaving the preparatory course at Keio University in 1943, he entered the Japanese painting department of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, studied under Yamamoto Kyujin, and graduated in 1952. After turning 40, he distanced himself from the official art world, and in his late fifties found his calling in ink painting (suibokuga), establishing his own distinctive style. He painted the “Twin Dragons” ceiling paintings at Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura in 2000 and Kenninji Temple in Kyoto in 2001, and dedicated cherry blossom and lotus fusuma paintings to Todaiji Temple in 2010; because he belonged to no specific art organization, he was known as “the solitary painter.”