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Matazō Kayama (1927-2004) was born in Kyoto. Kayama started making art, and when he was 13 years old he entered the Japanese Painting Academy in Kyoto. In 1949, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in painting. Around 1960 he traveled, gave exhibitions, and held conferences abroad. Starting in 1950, he participated in expositions of The Association of Young Artists (Shinseisaku gakai), wherein he was awarded four times. He became a famous painter in his early 30's. From 1958 on, he participated in international expositions of modern Japanese artists. In 1967, he also participated in the exhibition Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Painting at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg and at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. In 1957, he was granted the Young Painters Prize in the Asahi News. In 1973 he was granted the prize for Japanese Art and, in 1980, he received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture. He became a professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1988. He had held a private exhibition in Paris in 1990. He held exhibitions at the Central Museum of Beijing (1993) and British Museum (1996)

Yuki Sakurajima (Sakurajima Covered in Snow)Hori Art Museum

Siesta

Wolves 1956

Wolvesdetail

Winter 1957 The National

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Full moon light

Winter

Winter valley

Camel and people (1957)

Sakasu no uma (Circus horses)

Afflicted deer

The National Museum of Modern Art,

Tokyo

Horses

White Horse By House (1955)

GrasslandThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

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Square dish with cherry blossoms motif carved in shallow relief

Peony Ceramic plate 2003

Ceramic bowl

Seibutsu (still life)

Still life

Plum blossoms; red and white 1990 Ume (plum)

White plum (detail)

Fly1981

Zuisho (Auspicious Sign)Hori Art Museum

Tao 1996 White Peony 1985

Red Plum 2001

Day roundHori Art Museum

First month

Dragon ceiling painting Kumoryuzu Zen temple

Dragons

Moonlight waves (1979) Fragment

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