Kawabata Ryushi 川端龍子
川端龍子 Kawabata Ryushi (1885-1966)
Japanese painter and haiku poet of the Taisho and Showa periods. Born in Wakayama Prefecture. He first intended to paint Western-style paintings, and he went to the United States for studying painting but switched to Japanese-style painting after he returned to Japan. He was a unique figure in the Japanese painting world with his Western-style brush strokes. Although a Japanese-style painter, he painted genre-bending works, large, non-standard paintings, and he constantly challenged himself to break out of the conventional framework of the painting.
Japanese painter and haiku poet of the Taisho and Showa periods. Born in Wakayama Prefecture. He first intended to paint Western-style paintings, and he went to the United States for studying painting but switched to Japanese-style painting after he returned to Japan. He was a unique figure in the Japanese painting world with his Western-style brush strokes. Although a Japanese-style painter, he painted genre-bending works, large, non-standard paintings, and he constantly challenged himself to break out of the conventional framework of the painting.
