鶴田 吾郎
After dropping out of Waseda University, he studied under Hakuyō Kurata and Fusetsu Nakamura.
Between 1913 and 1920, Tsuruta lived in of Korea and Manchuria. His Portrait of the Blind Eroshenko (盲目のエロシェンコ像, Mōmoku no eroshenko zō) was selected for the 2nd Imperial Academy Art Exhibition. In 1942, during the Pacific theater of World World War II, Tsuruta commemorated the active role of airborne Army and Naval units and the celebrated aerial attack on Palembang by Army paratroopers in his war scene Divine Soldiers Descend on Palembang (神兵パレンバンに降下す, Shinpei parenban ni koukasu).
Tsuruta served as a judge at the Bunten Exhibition, and established the Japan Mountain Forest Fine Arts Association (日本山林美術協会, Nihon kinrin bijutsu kyōkai).
He was a member of the artists" circles Hakubakai, Taiheiyō Bijutsu, and Shigenki.