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Cat (woodcut) 2002

Still life

Soaring

Namitoturu jyu A Thousand Cranes, 1991 (red)

Namitoturu fuku A Thousand Cranes, 1991

Peony

Red and white plum

Moon 1978 National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

A Thousand Cranes, 1970

A Thousand Cranes, 1970National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Hana 1978 National Museum of Modern

Art, Tokyo

The World of Modern Japanese Masters

Exhibition

Cherry blossoms 1982

Shungetsu (Spring moon)

1972

Cherry blossoms at night, 1993

Awatsuki 1996

Cherry Blossoms at Night

Star Festival six-panel folding screen

Star Festival (Fragment)six-panel folding screen

Setsugetsuka 1967 six-panel folding screen

Milky Way (1968)

Milky Way (1968)

Milky Way (1968)

Milky Way (1968)Fragment

Cherry blossoms 1982

Snowy Landscape in the Northern Song Manner

Waves in Spring and AutumnThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Waves in Spring and Autumn (Fragment)

Kai Tsugaru Owani Onsen Aomori (Fragment)

Kai Tsugaru Owani Onsen Aomori

A thousand cranesThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

A thousand cranes The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

The silver foil on the background is sprinkled finely, creating a dreamy atmosphere

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Sound: James Galway - Michio Miyagi - Haro no umi

2016

Matazō Kayama (1927-2004) was born in Kyoto. Kayama started making art, and when he was 13 years old he entered the Japanese Painting Academy in Kyoto. In 1949, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in painting. Around 1960 he traveled, gave exhibitions, and held conferences abroad. Starting in 1950, he participated in expositions of The Association of Young Artists (Shinseisaku gakai), wherein he was awarded four times. He became a famous painter in his early 30's. From 1958 on, he participated in international expositions of modern Japanese artists. In 1967, he also participated in the exhibition Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Painting at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg and at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1957, he was granted the Young Painters Prize in the Asahi News. In 1973 he was granted the prize for Japanese Art and, in 1980, he received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture. He became a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1988. He had held a private exhibition in Paris in 1990. He held exhibitions at the Central Museum of Beijing (1993) and British Museum (1996)