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Biography Inoue, Toyohisa (1914 - 1998)

Born in Kyoto, Inoue Toyohisa graduated at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto in 1933. He studied with Tokuriki Tomikichirō, and already in 1933 he exhibited with the Kyoto Sōsaku-hangakai. In the 1930s he also exhibited extensively elsewhere, also in Europe and USA. After the war he resumed work and according to Helen Merritt he was still active in 1985.