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Maeda, Seison
(b Gifu Prefect., 27 Jan 1885; d Kanagawa Prefect., 27 Oct 1977). Japanese painter. In 1901 he went to Tokyo, where he entered the painting school of Hanko Kajita (1870–1917). He formed a lasting friendship with fellow student Kokei Kobayashi. After 1914 Maeda was a central figure in the Inten, the exhibition of the Japan Art Institute. In 1922 he travelled to Europe as an overseas student of the Institute, and he was deeply impressed by Italian early Renaissance frescoes, which greatly influenced the development of his later style. He painted in the Japanese style (Nihonga; see JAPAN, §VI, 5(iii)) and worked in a variety of genres, including still-lifes and landscapes; he is best known, however, for such figure paintings as Yoritomo in the Cave (1929; Ogura Bunko Zaidan col.) and Awaiting the Outset (1955; priv. col.). In 1935 he became a member of the Imperial Art Academy, and in 1955 he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit.
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