Kogyo Terasaki1866~1919 寺崎広業

TERASAKI Kogyo was a modern Japanese-style painter (Nihonga) born in Akita Prefecture in 1866. He first studied under Komuro Iisai of the Kano school, who served as the official painter to the Akita domain, before moving to Tokyo to train under Hirafuku Suian and Sugawara Hakuryu. In 1898 he became an assistant professor at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, but resigned along with Okakura Tenshin during the Tenshin expulsion incident and helped found the Japan Art Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin). He returned to the Tokyo Fine Arts School as a full professor in 1901 and trained roughly 300 disciples, and in 1917 he was appointed an Imperial Household Artist. He died in 1919 at the age of 54.