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Takeuchi, Seiho [Takeuchi Tsunekichi]
(b Kyoto, 22 Nov 1864; d Kanagawa Prefect., 23 August 1942). Japanese painter. He became a student of Kono Bairei in 1881 and learnt the techniques of traditional Japanese painting (Nihonga; see JAPAN, §VI, 5(iii)). As early as the 1890s he was recognized among Nihonga circles in Kyoto as representing a new trend of painting. During the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1900), he travelled to Europe, where he studied Western art. After returning to Japan he established a unique style, combining the realist techniques of the traditional Japanese Maruyama–Shijo school (see JAPAN, §VI, 4(viii)) with Western forms of realism in such works as Spotted Cat (1924; Tokyo, Yamatane Mus. A.). This subsequently became one of the principal styles of modern Nihonga. Takeuchi participated in such official exhibitions as the Bunten (of the Ministry of Education), the Teiten (of the Imperial Art Academy) and the New Bunten. He was also an important teacher, with his own school, and trained many Nihonga painters. In 1919 he became a member of the Imperial Art Academy, and in 1937 he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit.
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