Takehisa Yumeji
Takehisa Yumeji was a Japanese poet and painter, known for his illustrations on book covers, newspapers, postcards, and even washi paper. He typically painted bijinga (paintings of beautiful women) in a somewhat modernized style.
He traveled throughout Europe in 1933, where in Berlin, he lectured twice a week at the art school of Bauhaus. During this time, Takehisa took on 10 students for a Japanese painting course, for which he wrote The Concept of Japanese Painting, a handwritten guide to the various styles of ink-wash painting that was translated into German. The guide expressed the importance of lines in Japanese art rather than planes and the philosophy that lines are representative of the linear nature of inner thought.
What's interesting, Takehisa's depictions of female characters with large eyes had a significant influence on the incipient shōjo manga genre.
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