Sai Morita1898~1993 森田沙伊

Morita Sai (real name Saiichi) was a Japanese-style painter from Hokkaido and a member of the Japan Art Academy. After studying under Sasaki Ransai of the Shijo school in his youth, he moved to Tokyo in 1917 to enter the Kawabata Painting School and studied under Kawai Gyokudo and Yuki Somei at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He graduated from the Nihonga department in 1923 and exhibited at the Teiten and Bunten exhibitions, winning the Bunten Special Prize in 1939. From 1940 he engaged in copying the Horyu-ji murals, and after the war was active at the Nitten exhibition, receiving the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1959 and becoming an Academy member in 1975, with the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Third Class) in 1976.