Kojin Kozu

Background

Kojin Kozu was born on December 21, 1889 in Nagano Prefecture.

Education

In 1912, Kojin Kozu graduated from Tokyo Fine Arts School. In 1935, he entered Nozawa Junior High School in Nagano Prefecture and studied painting from Maruyama Banka on holidays.

Kojin Kozu entered the Western painting department of Tokyo Art School at the age of 40 and graduated at the age of 45 under the guidance of Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji and Wada Eisaku. He also studied two years in Europe.

Achievements

• Kojin Kozu organized Ryokuko-kai (Green Town Art Society) and Sogei Kyokai (Creative Art Association).

Works

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• painting

  • Rose Flower

    (oil on canvas)

  • Morning Forest

    (oil on canvas)

  • Autumn park in Paris Luxembourg

    (oil on canvas)

    1965

  • Flowers

    (oil on canvas)

  • Paysages Parisiens

  • At boating Inokashira park

  • Shinanoji road

    1918

Membership

• Sogei Kyokai (Creative Art Association) , Japan

  1954

• Japan Forestry Art Association , Japan

Connections

teacher:

Maruyama Banka

teacher:

Fujishima Takeji

Fujishima Takeji was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

teacher:

Wada Eisaku

Wada Eisaku was a Japanese painter in the "Western" Yoga style of the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period.

teacher:

Kuroda Seiki

Viscount Kuroda Seiki was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter and teacher, noted for bringing Western theories about art to a wide Japanese audience. He was among the leaders of the yoga (or Western-style) movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. His real name was Kuroda Kiyoteru, which uses an alternate pronunciation of the Chinese characters.