Asai Chū

Plaats: Sakura Chiba

Geboren: 1856

Dood: 1907

Biografie:

Asai Chū (浅井 忠, July 22, 1856 – December 16, 1907) was a Japanese painter, noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th century and early twentieth-century Japanese painting. Asai was born to an ex-samurai class household in Sakura, in the Kantō region of Japan, where his father had been a retainer ...