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Biography Itchô, Furutani 一晁 古谷 (1890 - 1966)

Furutani Itchō (or: Icchō) was born in 1890. He was a pupil of Yamamoto Shunkyo, one of the founders of the modern Kyoto school and one of the first of the Nihonga artists who were interested in Western art and in photography as an art form. From him he learned about perspective and about the rendering of light and atmosphere, which he passed on to his students. While still a student, he won many prizes at the Bunten exhibition. After 1920, he won awards at the Teiten exhibition on several occasions.
He died in 1966.