Kenzo Narahara1907~1999 楢原健三

Kenzo Narahara (1907-1999) was a Japanese Western-style (yoga) painter born in Tokyo. He entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1928 to study under Takeji Fujishima, and was first selected for the Teiten exhibition in 1930. After the war he co-founded the Shigenkai association in 1947 and won the Okada Prize at the Nitten exhibition; he later served as chairman of the Shigenkai from 1979. In 1981 he received the Japan Art Academy Prize and was named a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1988, and was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 1993.