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Biography Murakami, Gyojin (1911 - 1998)
Murakami Gyojin (村上暁人) was born in Inoshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 1st. While working for the Hitachi Shipbuilding Company in Hiroshima he was also a keen amateur painter, and this continued after he had moved to Kobe to work for the JR Takatori Company. As a painter he made both oil paintings and Japanese-style paintings. After the war he felt he had been given a second chance at life and he started using his artist's name (Gyojin, literally "Dawn person"). |
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