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WESTERN PRECEPTS AND BASICS OF PLEN-AIR PAINTING – Kuroda Seiki

Western-style movement in early 20th-century Japanese painting. In Japan, when the father of modern Western-style painting died in 1924, he bequeathed a portion of his estate, for the furtherment of art. In 1928, with this bequest was formed the Kuroda Memorial Hall. In recognition of his artistic achievements, exhibits of Oil paintings, sketches and similar works donated by his family …

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A FROG IN A WELL, NEVER KNOWS THE VAST OCEAN – Utada Hikaru, Kuroda Seiki and Naoshi Koriyama: creative Japan eggs in a travel basket.

Fighting loneliness, between coral walls, to discover Japanese creativity. In each village, a distinct identity still manages to mix in with standard Japanese. It takes about 4 to 5 hours to reach Kikajima http://kic-update.com/en/travel/kikaijima/ you can take a flight from Haneda Airport to Kagoshima, and then transfer onto a local plane to Kikai Airport. About 1,300 kilometers from Tokyo, in …

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