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Kuroda, Seiki [Kuroda, Kiyoteru; Seiki]
(b Kagoshima Prefect., 29 June 1866; d Tokyo, 15 July 1924). Japanese painter. He is best known for introducing the plein-air palette of French Impressionism to Japan. He was the most successful and politically influential advocate of Western-style painting (Yoga; see JAPAN, §VI, 5(iv)) in Japan at the turn of the century. Born into a wealthy aristocratic family, Kuroda was adopted by his uncle Viscount Kuroda Kiyotsuna (1830–1917) and educated in French and English in preparation for a career in the Foreign Service. In his teens he studied pencil sketching and watercolours under Hosoda Shuji ( fl 19th century), a minor follower of the Western-style painter Takahashi Yuichi.
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