Tadashi Moriya1912~2003 守屋多々志

Moriya Tadashi (real name Moriya Tadashi) was a Japanese-style painter born on August 10, 1912 in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, and a recipient of the Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit. After graduating from Gifu Prefectural Ogaki Middle School in 1930, he moved to Tokyo to study under his fellow Ogaki native Maeda Seison, entered the Nihonga department of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1931, became a special scholarship student during his studies, and graduated in 1936 with his graduation work "Hakuu" winning the Kawabata Gyokusho Prize. His "Tsugunobu Tadanobu" was first selected for the revived Japan Art Institute Exhibition in 1941, and from 1943 he adopted the artistic name "Tadashi". He studied in Italy for two years from 1954, undertook the reproduction copying of the Horyu-ji Kondo murals from 1967, and was commissioned to copy the Takamatsuzuka Tomb murals from 1972. In 1974 he was elected a member of the Japan Art Institute. Renowned as a master of historical figure painting, he died on December 22, 2003, at the age of 91.