Saburosuke Okada1869~1939 岡田三郎助

Saburosuke Okada (1869-1939) was a Western-style painter and printmaker active from the Meiji through early Showa eras, born in Saga in the former Hizen Province. He studied under Soyama Yukihiko, Horie Masaaki, and Kuroda Seiki, co-founded the Hakuba-kai (White Horse Society) with Kuroda in 1896, and studied in France from 1897 under Raphaël Collin. After returning to Japan he taught for many years as a professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and in 1912 co-founded the Hongo Western Painting Institute with Fujishima Takeji, becoming celebrated for refined female figure paintings imbued with a Japanese sensibility. In 1937 he received the first-ever Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho).