(b Misumi-cho, Otsu-gun, Yamaguchi Prefect., 25 Oct 1911; d Yamaguchi Prefect., 8 March 1974). Japanese painter. He studied at the Western painting ( yoga) department of the Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) from 1931 to 1936 in the studio of Takeji Fujishima. As a student he exhibited in the Kokugakai (National Painting Society), where his work attracted the attention of Umehara Ryuzaburo. In 1940 he became a member of the society and continued to exhibit with them until 1961. During World War II, he was drafted into the army (1943) and while moving through Korea and Manchuria he was captured in the Chinese city of Shenyang, Liaoning province. After disarmament he was sent to a labour camp in the Krasnoyarsk district in Siberia, where he was interned for two years. He was repatriated in 1947. After that time he produced works in his native town, Misumi-cho, and after the opening of his first one-man show in 1959 he exhibited his works principally through one-man exhibitions. In 1967, with Tatsuo Takayama, he participated in a retrospective exhibition at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura. In 1976 the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum organized an exhibition that travelled to Kita-Kyushu, Kyoto and Tokyo.