Yasushi Sugiyama

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Yasushi Sugiyama in 1951

Yasushi Sugiyama (杉山 寧, Sugiyama Yasushi, 20 October 1909–20 October 1993) was a Japanese painter of the Shōwa and Heisei eras, who practiced the nihonga style of watercolour painting.

Biography[]

Sugiyama was born in 1909 in Asakusa, the eldest son of the owner of a stationery shop. In 1928, Sugiyama enrolled in the Tokyo Art School (now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). He formed the "rossogasha" (瑠爽画社) along with and , and participated positively in the movement to reform nihonga. His paintings are characteristized by peacefulness filled with a sense of security, owing to excellent sketching ability and solid construction.

In 1958, his eldest daughter married Yukio Mishima. As a reason for choosing her, Mishima suggested "because she was the daughter of an artist, so she wouldn't hold to many of the illusions people have about artists".

He received a commission to design the carpets of Tokyo Imperial Palace. His stylized pattern of clouds (kumo) was used in the Shunju-no-Ma, a grand hall with an area of 608 square meters, or about 184 tsubo. He also designed the pattern of grass (kusa), which was used in the Houmei-Den, the largest hall with an area of 915 square meters, or about 280 tsubo.^[1]

In 1974, Sugiyama was awarded the Order of Culture.

Famous works[]

• 穹 (1964, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art)

See also[]

• Gakuryō Nakamura
• Seison Maeda
• Yokoyama Taikan
• Kaii Higashiyama
• List of Nihonga painters

References[]

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