Higashiyama Kaii

Brief Biography:

1908: Born in Yokohama. 

1931: Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. 

1956: Awarded the Japan Art Institute Prize. 

1960: Completed murals in the grand hall of the Crown Price's Palace. 

1965: Became a member of Japan Art Institute. 

1968: Completed huge murals in the new Imperial Palace. 

1969: Decorated with an Order of Cultural Merits and designated as a person of cultural merits. 

1975: Completed murals in Toshodaiji Temple. 

1980: Completed murals in Toshodaiji Temple. 

1999: Died. 

Relevant Art Sites:

• 1. Higashiyama Kaii Gallery: Selected works

     • Evening Quiet

     • Luminour Cherry Blossoms

     • Study for Auspicious Lights

     • Pagoda in the Evening

  2. Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Japanese):

     • Higashiyama Kaii Art Gallery

     • Selected works by Higashiyama Kaii

  3. Yoshio Taniguchi, architect of the Higashiyama Kaii Art Gallery in Nagano City :

     • Biography

     • Selected Projects

Toshodaiji Temple, Nara:

• 1. Interactive Media Lab's virtual reality tour of the Toshodaiji (a UNESCO world heritage site)

     1. • description by Toppan

        • description by Silicon Graphics

  2. Rekishi Kaido's Nara City Guide

  3. Nara City Official Guide

     1. • Invitation Nara (in English)

        • Introduction to the Toshodaiji Temple

  4. Lacquered sculpture of Ganjin (8th century, a "National Treasure")

Higashiyama Kaii:

• 1. Higashiyama Kaii -- An artist for whom painting was a form of prayer by Nitta Mayumi 

  2. (The East, 1999, 35:2)

  3. Traditional Japanese Painter Kaii Higashiyama by Sir Hugh Cortazzi 

  4. (Arts of Asia, Special Japanese Issue, Jul/Aug 1996)

  5. Kaii Higashiyama's World Of Landscape Painting 

  6. Nikkei Visual Images, Inc., Tokyo. (Producer: Koichi Takaaze; 

  7. Director: Fumio Sano; Announcer/Reporter: Kyoko Maya; Personalities: Kyoko Maya )