Takanori Kinoshita1894~1973 木下孝則

Kinoshita Takanori (February 24, 1894 - March 29, 1973) was a Japanese Western-style (yoga) painter born in Yotsuya Ward, Tokyo. His father was Kinoshita Tomosaburo, president of Meiji University, and his younger brother was the painter Kinoshita Yoshinori. After graduating from the Gakushuin Higher School and dropping out of both the law department of Kyoto Imperial University and the philosophy department of Tokyo Imperial University, he turned to painting and was accepted into the Nika Exhibition in 1921. Following study in France, he received the Choguy Prize and Nika Prize at Nika exhibitions, then left the Nika-kai in 1936 to become a founding member of the Issui-kai. He won the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1958, and was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Fourth Class, Gold Rays with Rosette in 1973.