Kaii Higashiyama
Kaii Higashiyama ( Higashiyama Kai'i, July 8, 1908 - May 6, 1999)
was a Japanese artist.
Born in Yokohama, Higashiyama graduated from the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music in 1931. He was awarded the Japan
Art Institute prize in 1956. In 1968 he completed large murals on
the New Imperial Palace, and in 1969 he was given the Order of Cultural
Merits and designated as a person with cultural merit. In 1975 and
in 1980, he completed murals in the Toshodaiji Temple.
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