Okazaki Tadao
Japanese style painter
Okumura Togyu (1889 - 1990) was one of the leading contemporary Japanese painters. His real name is Okumura Yoshizo. His father, who ran a publishing company, gave him the name "Togyu" after a line from the poem "Togyu Plowing the Stone Paddy Fields" in Kanzan. He is the chairman of the Inten Exhibition. Member of the Art Academy. Received the Order of Cultural Merit. Studied under Kajita Hanko and Kobayashi Kokei.
His works are characterized by the extremely subtle colors he succeeded in achieving through the application of 100 or 200 coats of gofun, etc., with a brush. ＜Fuji" (or "Fuji") is well-known and is displayed at the Imperial Palace.
After his death, his son Katsuyuki Okumura (his fourth son and a photographer), who was worried about the huge inheritance tax imposed on his works (the tax was high during the bubble period when he died), confessed in his book that he had burned the sketches, which were relatively low in value, and destroyed them. This brought to public attention the issue of inheritance taxation of arts and crafts.