Taisuke Hamada1932~ 浜田泰介

HAMADA Taisuke (born March 28, 1932) is a Japanese-style painter from Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture. He graduated from Kyoto Municipal University of Arts in 1955 and completed its graduate program in 1957. From 1958 to 1961 he was selected four years in a row for the Asahi Shinjin-ten and Mainichi Bestelli exhibitions, and from 1961 onward he held solo exhibitions both in Japan and abroad to wide acclaim. Often called "the fusuma painter of the Heisei era," he has produced wall and sliding-door paintings for many temples and shrines, including the World Heritage site Daigo-ji, as well as To-ji and Fushimi Inari Taisha. He received the Mikkyo Gakugei Prize in 2000 and the 60th Ehime Shimbun Prize in 2012.