Watanabe Ikuharu
Japanese, 1895 - 1975
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Japanese, 1885 - 1942
BiographyBorn in Nagoya. Entered paintings in the twelfth Bunten in 1918. Between 1922-25 he attended the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting. His teacher was Yamamoto Shunkyo. In 1924 he, together with a.o. Asami Köjö organized the Chükyuö Art Society, a group of painters from the Nagoya area. Participated in the Bunten, Teiten and Shin-bunten. (The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties. Hotei Publishing, 2000).
