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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:
- Higashiyama Kaii Gallery: Selected works
- Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Japanese):
- Yoshio Taniguchi, architect of the Higashiyama Kaii Art Gallery in Nagano City :
Toshodaiji Temple, Nara:
- Interactive Media Lab's virtual reality tour of the Toshodaiji (a UNESCO world heritage site)
- Rekishi Kaido's Nara City Guide
- Nara City Official Guide
- Lacquered sculpture of Ganjin (8th century, a "National Treasure")
Higashiyama Kaii:
- Higashiyama Kaii -- An artist for whom painting was a form of prayer by Nitta Mayumi
(The East, 1999, 35:2)
- Traditional Japanese Painter Kaii Higashiyama by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
(Arts of Asia, Special Japanese Issue, Jul/Aug 1996)
- Kaii Higashiyama's World Of Landscape Painting
Nikkei Visual Images, Inc., Tokyo. (Producer: Koichi Takaaze;
Director: Fumio Sano; Announcer/Reporter: Kyoko Maya; Personalities: Kyoko Maya )
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