biography
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Watanabe, Kazan
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originally Jozei Watanabe
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pronunciation:
[watanahbay, kazan]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1793–1841)
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| biography:
| Scholar and painter, born in Edo (now Tokyo). As an art student he became influenced by the S Chinese school of painting known as wen-jen-hua (‘literati painting’), which stressed scholarly and literary themes. He is noted for his pioneering efforts to integrate Western perspective into Japanese art. |
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