Noda Kyūho

Noda Kyūho (野田 九甫, 1879–1971), given name Dosan, was born in Tokyo in 1879. He studied Japanese-style painting with Terasaki Kōgyō (寺崎 広業, 1866-1919) and Western style painting at the White Horse Society. He attended the Tokyo Art School for a year around 1896 where he developed the sketching ability that allowed him to earn his living as an illustrator for the Osaka newspaper Asahi shinbun. In Osaka, he also did book illustration and became a friend of the nihonga and woodblock artist Kitano Tsunetomi (1880-1947). In 1917 he returned to Tokyo where he remained, concentrating on nihonga paintings with cultural and religious themes.

He exhibited at the government sponsored Bunten and his work Tsitji Seppo won an award at the first Bunten in 1907. He was one of five artists working for the Asahi shinbun who contributed to the 1916 series Pictures of Famous Places in Osaka and Kobe (Hanshin meisho zue) and to Supplements of the Complete Works of Chikamatsu Manzaemon, 1922-1925. Several of his paintings are held by The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

One of his students was the female Nihonga painter Shima Seien (島成園, 1892–1970).