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Biography Miwa, Chôsei (1901 - 1983)

Chôsei Miwa was born in Niigata prefecture. He graduated from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting and became a student of Dômoto Inshô. He was mainly active as a painter and exhibited at the Teiten and Nitten. Next to painting he made woodblock prints of Kyoto scenes and kacho-e (birds and flower prints).