Biography Dômoto, Inshô (1891 - 1975)

In 1910 Kyoto-born Dômoto Inshô graduated at the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts and Crafts. After working as a textile designer he entered the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting, where he graduated in 1924. He only made a limited number of woodblock prints, he taught painting in Kyoto before WWII, and became very famous as a painter. In 1961 he received the Order of Cultural Merit, and in 1966 the Dômoto Inshô museum, entirely designed by him, was opened in Kyoto. An important artist.



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