Dōmoto Inshō

Born in Kyoto. Real name Sannosuke. Graduated in 1921 from the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting. He studied under Nishikawa Suisho. In 1921 he received a special award at the third Teiten (‘Imperial Art Exhibition’) and the Teikoku Bijutsuin (‘Imperial Art Academy’) prize at the sixth Teiten in 1925. In 1944 he was apointed member of the Imperial Art Board, and in 1950 of the Japan Art Academy. After World War II he started to work in a more abstract way and he had exhibitions in Italy, France and United States. He received the Order of Cultural Merit in 1961. In 1966 he opened the Domoto Art Museum in Kyoto. (The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties. Hotei Publishing, 2000).