Kumagai Naohiko was a Japanese artist and painter.
Background
Kumagai Naohiko was born on January 29, 1828 in Kyoto, Japan. He was the son of Yamamoto Suekane, priest of a shrine at Kamo district. Original personal name: Totaro. Pen name: Tokuga. In 1844, Naohiko became an adopted son of Kumagai Samon, Samurai of Geishu Domain.
Education
Kumagai Naohiko showed interest in painting from an early age. When Naohiko was 14 years old, he became a disciple of Okamoto Shigehiko who was a dominant painter of the Shijo school. After Shigehiko's death, Naohiko taught himself Japanese style painting.
Career
At the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Kumagai Naohikо operated as a Sonno-Joi nationalist (Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians). After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, took active part in affairs of state: he went to Tokyo and flourished as a painter again. He sent pieces of works to the Chicago World's Expo in 1893 and the Paris Expo. In 1904, Kumagai Naohikо was appointed as an official artist for the Imperial court.
Achievements
Connections
Kumagai Naohiko married Naozaemon Kumagai’s daughter (1844).