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Asai, Chu [Mokugo; Mokugyo]
(b Edo [now Tokyo], 21 June 1856; d Kyoto, 16 Dec 1907). Japanese painter. He was the leading Western-style (Yoga; see JAPAN, §VI, 5(iv)) landscape painter of the Meiji period (1868–1912) and one of the founder-members of the Meiji Bijutsukai (Meiji Fine Arts Society, established 1889; later absorbed into the Taiheiyo Gakai [Pacific Painting Society]), the first association of Western-style painters in Japan. Asai was born into a samurai family retained by the Sakura clan. He was originally trained in Japanese bird-and-flower painting (kachoga) in the literati (Nanga or Bunjinga) style, but turned later to oil painting and at the age of 19 entered the Shogido, a private school of Western-style painting. The school had been opened in Tokyo the previous year by the artist Shinkuro Kunisawa (1847–77), who had studied painting under John Wilcolm in London.
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