Kichizo Kurosawa1928~2009 黒沢吉蔵

Kurosawa Kichizo (1928-2009) was a Japanese-style (Nihonga) painter, born in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. He graduated from the Japanese painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts and studied under Yamamoto Kyujin. He received the New Artist Award (Shinsakka-sho) in 1955, 1965, and 1966, and was invited to the "Newcomers of Japanese Painting" exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in 1969. When the Sogakai art group was founded in 1974, he became one of its founding members. He died of myocardial infarction on February 22, 2009.