Chousei Miwa
Japanese style painter
Miwa Chosei (real name: Miwa Noburo, April 30, 1901 - September 7, 1983) was a Japanese-style painter. He was a member of the Japan Art Academy, a distinguished person of arts and crafts of Kyoto Prefecture, a distinguished person of culture of Kyoto City, and an honorary citizen of the town of Yoita (now an honorary citizen of Nagaoka City). Brother-in-law of Impression Domoto.
Born in 1901 in Naga-cho, Yoita-cho, Mishima-gun, Niigata Prefecture (now Nagaoka City). Father is Miwa Koshiryu (real name: Miwa Daijiro), a Western-style painter. After graduating from Yoita Elementary School, he moved to Kyoto to study painting and entered Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts in 1913, and graduated from Kyoto Municipal College of Painting (now Kyoto City University of Arts) in 1924.
In 1927, "Higashiyama" was selected for the first time at the 8th Teiten (Imperial Exhibition), "Haru-oka" at the 12th Teiten (Imperial Exhibition) in 1931, and "Boat Building Dunes" at the 15th Teiten (Imperial Exhibition) in 1934. In the same year, when Impression Domoto formed the painting school "Tokaisha," he joined the school and became its head. After the war, he continued to exhibit his works at the Nitten Exhibition and was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1962 for "Shubashira" (Red Pillar), and became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1979. In his later years, he painted quiet landscapes with vivid colors and highly decorative flower-and-bird paintings. He died in Kyoto in 1983 at the age of 82. His wife Mitsu was a younger sister of Impression Domoto. His son is Kohisa Miwa, also a Japanese-style painter.