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1865-1945

Ohashi Suiseki was a Meiji to Showa period Japanese painter from the Gifu prefecture. His real name was Usaburo and he studied under the great painters, Amano Hoko and Watanabe Shoka in Kyoto. He began from painting in the Nanga style (Japanese literati painting) then shifted to primary observation methods i.e. painting /drawing from life. While he loved to draw animals, he is best known and most beloved for his works of tigers. Opening new doors for Japanese art, his vanguard aesthetic was widely celebrated. With this, he was rewarded the Gold Award at, both, the 1900 Exposition Universelle (Paris World Exposition) and the 1910 Japan–British Exhibition.