Kawamura Kiyoo

Kawamura Kiyoo studied at Kaiseijo and Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. Training under Tanomura Chokunyū, Haruki Nammei and Takahashi Yuichi is recorded. Kazuma Oda, Ishikawa Kinichiro and Tōjō Shōtarō are recorded as having studied under Kawamura Kiyoo. The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is Japanese painting. Works named in the authority record are Founding of the Nation. Work by Kawamura Kiyoo is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay.

• Name — Kawamura Kiyoo • Born — 1852 • Died — 1934 • Field — Painting • Movement — Yōga

Born in Edo in 1852, as a child he began to study under Sumiyoshi Naiki, before moving to Osaka prior to his grandfather's appointment as bugyō (magistrate). Continuing his education under Tanomura Chokunyū, after returning to Edo he studied for a time with Haruki Nanmei before learning yōga from Kawakami Tōgai, in around 1868. Initially sponsored by Katsu Kaishū, with Tokugawa support he studied political law in the United States of America in 1871, travelling the following year to France and Italy. In Venice, he turned to the study of painting. Returning to Japan in 1881, he worked for the Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau before resigning over a disagreement and opening a school for painting in Kōjimachi. In 1889, he participated in the formation of the Meiji Bijutsukai, the first domestic art association to champion western-style painting. Within a decade the association had been eclipsed by Kuroda Seiki's 白馬会. Kawamura Kiyoo often painted in western-style oil on traditional Japanese supports of silk and wood. He died in Tenri in 1934.