Toshio Muroi1935~2012 室井東志生

Muroi Toshio was a Japanese-style painter born February 25, 1935 in Shimogo, Fukushima Prefecture, who died of stomach cancer on October 5, 2012 at the age of 77. While working as a junior-high-school teacher he exhibited at the prefectural exhibition; encouraged by juror Oyama Chusaku, he moved to Tokyo and became a pupil of Hashimoto Meiji in 1958. He was first selected for the 3rd Shin-Nitten in 1960 with "Ryokuin," won the Tokusen and Hakuju Prizes at the 1st Kaiso Nitten in 1969 with "Kazoku," and assisted Hashimoto in painting the cedar-door panels of the new Imperial Palace State Hall. He became a Nitten member in 1983, councilor in 1999, and director in 2012, and received the Prime Minister's Award at the 36th Kaiso Nitten (2004) for "Seiyo."