Shin Sato1935~ 佐藤晨

SATO Shin, born in 1935 in Nippori, Arakawa Ward, Tokyo, is a Japanese-style painter whose given name is Masami. Evacuated to Iwate Prefecture in 1944, he graduated from Iwate Prefectural Iwayado High School in 1954, then worked in the publicity department of Toho Films while teaching himself oil painting and pen drawing. He entered the Japanese painting course of Tama Art University in 1956 and was selected at the Shinseisaku Exhibition (now the Sogakai) with "Black Landscape" during his second year. He adopted the artist name "Shin" in 1983 and became a member of the Sogakai in 1987. Known for finely detailed color-on-paper works of Mount Fuji, temples, mountain scenery, and flowers, his elegant, lyrical, and faintly fantastical style brought a new sensibility to traditional Japanese-style painting.