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Higashiyama Kaii (東山魁夷)

Kaii HIGASHIYAMA (male, July 8, 1908 - May 6, 1999) was a Japanese painter.

He is evaluated as the foremost Japanese-style painter of the Showa era. He was an honorary citizen of Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture.

Biography and Personal Profile
He was born in Yokohama as the second son of Kosuke HIGASHIYAMA who ran a ship chandler, and his wife, Kuni.

His real name was Shinkichi. His family moved to Nishide-machi, Kobe City due to his father's business-related matters when he was three years old.

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Kaii became the first Japanese artist to be awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship to further his education in Germany, where he.

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While in the Hyogo Prefectural Daini-Kobe Junior High School (present Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo High School), he came to aim to be a painter, and went on to the Department of Japanese-style painting of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (present Tokyo University of Arts).

He studied under Somei YUKI. In 1929 while a student, he entered a piece for the first time in the tenth Japan Art Academy Exhibition (Teiten) 'Autumn in the Mountainous Country,' and received a prize f