Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami

male, 47 years old
is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist. Murakami works in both fine arts media, such as painting; as well as digital and commercial media. He...
Hiroshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yoshida

male, deceased (1950)
was a 20th century Japanese painter and woodblock print maker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin hanga style, and is known...
Ernest Fenollosa

Ernest Fenollosa

male, deceased (1908)
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 - September 21, 1908) was an American professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial...
William Sturgis Bigelow

William Sturgis Bigelow

male, deceased (1926)
William Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926) was a doctor and great American collector of Japanese art. He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan,...
John M. Rosenfield

John M. Rosenfield

male, 85 years old
John Max Rosenfield (born October 9, 1924) is an American art historian, with a specialization in Japanese art. He began teaching at Harvard...
Sadakichi Hartmann

Sadakichi Hartmann

male, deceased (1944)
Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was a critic and poet of German and Japanese descent. Hartmann, born on the artificial island of Dejima, Nagasaki and...
Kuroda Seiki

Kuroda Seiki

male, deceased (1924)
Viscount was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter and teacher, noted for bringing Western theories about art to a wide Japanese audience. He was...

William Anderson

male, deceased (1900)
William Anderson FRCS (18 December 1842 - 27 0ctober 1900), was a Scottish surgeon, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an...

Samuel Bing

male, deceased (1905)
Siegfried "Samuel" Bing (1838 - September 1905) was a German art dealer in Paris, who was prominent in the introduction of Japanese art and...

Charles S. Terry

male, deceased (1982)
Charles S. Terry (1926-1982) was an American translator and academic in the fields of Japanese history, art, and literature. Born in Mississippi in...